7.3% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 7.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brooklyn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brooklyn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 7.3% of people in Brooklyn volunteer, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This low level of community involvement is mirrored across other areas of unpaid work and service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are among the lowest for similar areas, sitting at 7.3%, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 10.1% of people providing care. This is consistent with the low numbers of people doing 15 or more hours of housework (15.3%) or caring for children unpaid (20.2%), both of which are well below national figures.
10.1% ▼ -16.9%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.2% ▼ -7.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.3% ▼ -16.2%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.3%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 15.3%
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.
Very few residents have served in the Defence Force, at 0.6%. This is lower than most areas and a little below the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
0.6%
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 Brooklyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20352/brooklyn/topic/community