18.6% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boroondara · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Boroondara
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Boroondara give their time to volunteering, making it a community where people are far more likely to help out than the national average. While these rates have dipped since 2011, the area remains active in unpaid work and care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.6% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% figure for Australia. This is a decline from 2011, when 23.6% of people in the area were volunteering.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 14.3% of people providing this support, a figure that is much higher than most other areas. Around 26.5% of residents also provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
14.3% ▲ +21.1%
Higher than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
Only 1.6% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is much lower than most other areas and sits a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.6%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Boroondara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA21110/boroondara/topic/community