12.9% ▼ -20.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boronia · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boronia
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Boronia involves a high proportion of people looking after children, though formal volunteering is less common here than in other areas. About 27.6% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is higher than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.9% of people volunteer their time, a figure that is much lower than most areas and slightly below the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 27.6% of people care for children unpaid, about 12.7% provide other types of unpaid care, which is around the middle for its level. Meanwhile, 20.2% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate lower than most areas.
12.7% ▲ +13.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▼ -2.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▼ -6.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 20.2%
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.
The proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force is 2.4%, which is around the middle for its level and about the same as the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Boronia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20304/boronia/topic/community