15.8% ▼ -22.2%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brighton East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brighton East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher rates of unpaid care define the community of Brighton East compared to most similar areas. While nearly 30% of people here care for children unpaid, volunteering is less common than in other similar neighbourhoods.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.8% of residents volunteer, which is lower than most areas. This figure is still a little above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care duties are common here, with 29.8% of people caring for children unpaid, well above the national and state figures of 26.3%. This helps explain why the 14.4% of people providing any unpaid care is higher than in most areas.
14.4% ▲ +17.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.8% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.3% ▼ -1.6%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 21.3%
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.
Around 2.2% of people in Brighton East have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the 2% seen across Victoria and the national figure of 2.8%.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Brighton East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20338/brighton-east/topic/community