17.5% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 72% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Stonnington - East · Sub-region (SA3)
Community Participation in Stonnington - East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Stonnington - East than in most similar areas. While 17.5% of residents give their time to community groups—well above the national figure—the number of volunteers has fallen by 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.5% of people helping out, which is well above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the Australian rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very high here, as 13.6% of residents provide this support, a figure that rose 2.4 percentage points since 2011. Meanwhile, 25.2% provide unpaid childcare, which is a little below the national figure of 26.3%.
13.6% ▲ +21.4%
Higher than 79% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.2% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 57% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -0.2%
Lower than 70% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 19.3%
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.
Very few people in Stonnington - East have served in the Defence Force. At 1.5%, this is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 87% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Stonnington - East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/20804/stonnington-east/topic/community