7.4% ▼ -11.8%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ardeer · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ardeer
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very low levels of community involvement mark Ardeer, which ranks among the lowest for volunteering. Only 7.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that sits well below the national average of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 7.4% of people volunteer here, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is less common in Ardeer than in most areas, with only 11.1% providing unpaid care. This is consistent with lower rates of people doing 15 or more hours of housework (14.4%) and those caring for children unpaid (22.4%), both of which are well below national figures.
11.1% ▲ +5.8%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.4% ▲ +10.7%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.4% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 14.4%
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.
A small proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force, at 0.7%, which is a little below the state and national averages.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Ardeer [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20062/ardeer/topic/community