23.1% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Burramine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Burramine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local involvement has remained a strong feature of life in Burramine, where residents are far more likely to volunteer than those in other parts of the country. Around 23.1% of the community gives their time to others, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 23.1% of people pitching in. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is more frequent than in most areas. About 13.7% of people provide unpaid care, and 27.5% look after children without pay, which is a little above the state and national figures.
13.7% ▲ +36.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.5% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 27.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -19.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
No one in the community reported serving in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the Victorian average of 2.0% and the Australian average of 2.8%.
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 Burramine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20422/burramine/topic/community