19.3% —
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Allestree · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Allestree
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Allestree provide unpaid care than in most other areas, with 22.9% of residents supporting others. This high level of community support is seen across the board, from volunteer work to looking after family members. It is a place where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.3% of people here volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1% and the Victorian rate of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is very common here, with 22.9% of people providing unpaid care—far above the 11.9% national average. This includes a little more people caring for children (28.6%) and well more people doing at least 15 hours of housework a week (27.1%) than in the rest of the state.
22.9% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.6% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.4%
- 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.
Service to the country is much more common here than in most areas, with 5.0% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
5.0%
Higher than 81% 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 Allestree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20030/allestree/topic/community