10.6% ▼ -31.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Box Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Box Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Box Hill engage in unpaid care and volunteering compared to most other areas. Only 10.6% of residents volunteer, and the rates of unpaid childcare and housework are far below the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas, with 10.6% of people helping out, which is well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is uncommon in Box Hill; only 15.3% of people care for children unpaid, which is far below the Victorian average of 26.3%. This trend extends to other home duties, with people providing general unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework both sitting well below the national figures.
8.1% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.3% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.1% ▼ -0.2%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.1%
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.
About 0.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
0.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Box Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20314/box-hill/topic/community