18.9% ▼ -27.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bruthen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bruthen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Bruthen than in most other areas. Roughly 18% of the population give unpaid care and 19% volunteer, both of which are well above national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.9% of people in Bruthen volunteer, which is well above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 30.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, a figure far above the state average. This is consistent with the high rate of unpaid care, which is well above both the state and national figures.
17.8% ▲ +52.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.8% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 30.4%
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.
A little over 4.7% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the national average and much higher than most similar areas.
4.7%
Higher than 77% 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 Bruthen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20364/bruthen/topic/community