18.7% ▼ -21.9%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Riverview · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Riverview
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Mount Riverview are now stepping up for their community and families compared to previous years. Local residents are far more likely to provide unpaid care and housework than others across the country, with 32% caring for children unpaid.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are around the middle for similar areas, but the 18.7% of residents who volunteer is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, as 30.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 21.2%, and 15.2% of residents provide other forms of unpaid care.
15.2% ▲ +13.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.0% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.2% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 30.2%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 4.2% of the population, which is much higher than in most other areas.
4.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality 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 Mount Riverview [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12799/mount-riverview/topic/community