18.5% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bung Bong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bung Bong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines Bung Bong, where 18.5% of people volunteer. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While formal service is low, many residents dedicate significant time to unpaid work at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people volunteer here, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, with 33.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%. While 14.8% provide unpaid care, which is a little above the national average, the proportion of people caring for children (22.2%) is well below the 26.3% seen in Australia.
14.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.2% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 33.3%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Bung Bong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20400/bung-bong/topic/community