5.1% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Adams Estate · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Adams Estate
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Adams Estate is marked by very low levels of formal community involvement. Only 5.1% of people volunteer here, which is well below the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 5.1% of residents volunteer, a figure that is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 27.1% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure—those caring for children unpaid are much lower than most areas at 18.6%.
10.2% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.6% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 27.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Adams Estate [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20007/adams-estate/topic/community