16.4% ▼ -17.3%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brunswick East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brunswick East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care in Brunswick East than in most other areas. While 16.4% of residents volunteer—which is well above the Victorian figure—the local community is much less likely to be involved in unpaid domestic work or caregiving.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.4% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas; only 16.2% of people care for children unpaid, which is 10 points below the state and national figures. This is consistent with the 13.5% who do 15 or more hours of housework, a figure well below the national average.
9.8% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.2% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.5% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
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.
Only 0.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20362/brunswick-east/topic/community