18.7% ▼ -25.4%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carlton North · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Carlton North
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 19% of people in Carlton North volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This community shows a strong trend of giving back, even though it has a much lower rate of unpaid childcare and housework compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.7% of residents helping out, a figure well above both the Victorian and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 19.4%, and only 14.9% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework. Meanwhile, 12.3% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure.
12.3% ▲ +44.6%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.4% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.9% ▲ +15.7%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 14.9%
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 0.9% of the population, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
0.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Carlton North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20496/carlton-north/topic/community