16.9% ▼ -13.5%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brunswick · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brunswick
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Brunswick is an area where residents are less likely to provide unpaid care than people in most other similar places. While volunteering is common, with 16.9% of people giving their time, the area has a much lower rate of unpaid housework and childcare compared to the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.9% of residents volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here than in most areas; only 16.6% of people care for children and 14.8% do 15 or more hours of housework, both figures being well below the state and national rates. Overall, those providing any unpaid care sit at 11.3%, which is a little below the Victorian average.
11.3% ▲ +19.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.6% ▼ -14.0%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.8% ▲ +8.6%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 14.8%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 0.9% of the population, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
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 Brunswick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20361/brunswick/topic/community