30.3% ▲ +28.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Breamlea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Breamlea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Breamlea now volunteer their time, a figure that has risen since 2011. This is a community where people are far more likely to give their time to others than those in most other Australian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are far above the national figure, with 30.3% of residents helping out, which is 16 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents are much more likely to handle heavy housework, with 34.1% spending 15 hours or more a week on chores. This is far above the Victorian figure of 20.1%, while 28.8% of people also provide unpaid childcare.
14.4% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.8% ▲ +22.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.1% ▲ +38.2%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 34.1%
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.
Defence Force service is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 4.7% of people having served, which is a little above the 2.8% national average.
4.7%
Higher than 78% 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 Breamlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20327/breamlea/topic/community