28.4% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Balmattum · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Balmattum
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 28% of people in Balmattum volunteer their time, which is a far higher rate than the national figure. This strong community spirit defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.4% of residents helping out. This is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 22.9%. However, 23.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the 20.7% typical across Australia.
10.1% ▼ -38.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.9% ▼ -4.1%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 23.9%
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 2.8% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Balmattum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20118/balmattum/topic/community