8.8% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Avalon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Avalon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Avalon provide unpaid child care, which is well above the national figure. This high rate of family support defines the area, though local volunteering is much lower than in most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.8% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Victorian (13.3%) and national (14.1%) averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family duties are common here, with 35.6% of people caring for children unpaid—well above the 26.3% seen across Australia. This is consistent with a higher share of residents doing at least 15 hours of housework (27.8%) and more people providing general unpaid care (14.6%) than in most areas.
14.6% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.6% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 27.8%
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.
About 1.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than in most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Avalon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20085/avalon/topic/community