12.8% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bonnie Brook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bonnie Brook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly one in five people in Bonnie Brook provide unpaid child care, though this is well below the Victorian and national figures of 26.3%. While child care is the most common form of support, other types of unpaid work and volunteering are generally less frequent here than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are much lower than most areas, with 12.8% of people helping out. This is a little below the own Australian figure of 14.1% and about the same as Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children (20.6%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (17.4%) are both well below the national figures. However, the share of people providing any form of unpaid care is 12.5%, which is about the same as both the state and the country.
12.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most similar areas, with 1.4% of residents having served. This is a little below the Australian figure of 2.8% and about the same as Victoria.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Bonnie Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20282/bonnie-brook/topic/community