5.4% ▼ -23.9%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Broadmeadows · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Broadmeadows
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 9 percentage points separates Broadmeadows from the national average in volunteering. Only 5.4% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas. This low level of community participation extends across unpaid care and defence service as well.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 5.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 19.5% of people caring for children and 13.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework. Overall, the 10.9% of people providing unpaid care is a little below the Australian average.
10.9% ▼ -6.2%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.5% ▼ -9.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.1% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 13.1%
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 service is lower than in most areas, with 0.7% of the population having served, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Broadmeadows [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20346/broadmeadows/topic/community