13.4% ▼ -37.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Big Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Big Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care and military service set Big Hill apart from most similar areas. While volunteering is common, the most striking feature is that 37.3% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.4% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most areas and sits about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 15.8% of people providing such support. This is much higher than most areas, driven largely by the 37.3% who care for children unpaid, a figure far above the national average.
15.8% ▲ +20.2%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.3% ▲ +105.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.0% ▼ -31.1%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 22.0%
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 much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 5.7% of people having served, well above the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
5.7%
Higher than 86% 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 Big Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20235/big-hill/topic/community