18.6% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bathumi · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bathumi
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid childcare in Bathumi than in the rest of the country, with 37.3% of residents doing so. This level of community support is a key feature of the area, which also sees a high rate of volunteering compared to the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.6% of the community volunteers, which is well above both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 15.3% of people providing support, which is well above the national figure. This is largely driven by childcare, where 37.3% of residents provide unpaid care—far above the 26.3% seen across Australia and Victoria.
15.3% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.3% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 20.3%
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, a figure that is a little below the Victorian and national averages.
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 Bathumi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20166/bathumi/topic/community