22.4% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Buninyong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Buninyong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national average for community involvement, Buninyong is a place where residents give a great deal of their own time to others. More than 22% of the population volunteer, and a very high proportion of people provide unpaid care and housework compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.4% of people helping out. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent in Buninyong, where 34.4% of people care for children and 29.6% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework. Both figures are well above the national average.
16.2% ▲ +25.2%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.4% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 33.9%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.6% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 29.6%
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.
About 3.0% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria and about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Buninyong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20409/buninyong/topic/community