10.8% ▼ -24.5%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bulleen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bulleen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Bulleen involves a high number of people looking after others, with 16.1% providing unpaid care. This is well above the national figure of 11.9%. However, the area has a lower rate of volunteering than most other similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.8% of people in Bulleen volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Bulleen has a much higher rate of unpaid caregivers than most areas, at 16.1%. While 24.3% of people care for children unpaid, 21.7% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is a little above the Victorian average.
16.1% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.3% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.7% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 1.4% of the population. This is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Bulleen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20386/bulleen/topic/community