21.6% ▼ -35.7%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Blampied · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Blampied
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Blampied volunteer, which is a much higher rate than in most other areas. This level of community spirit stands out against the national average. Other forms of unpaid work and service are generally less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.6% of residents volunteer, which is well above the figures for Victoria (13.3%) and Australia (14.1%).
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas, with only 9.8% of people providing unpaid care. This is well below the Victorian average of 12.9%.
9.8% ▼ -30.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 20.1%
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 Blampied has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Blampied [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20259/blampied/topic/community