13.7% ▼ -14.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carnegie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Carnegie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Carnegie spend their spare time on unpaid care or volunteering compared to other suburbs. This is most evident in the low number of residents providing unpaid childcare, with only 22.2% of the community doing so.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 13.7% of people in Carnegie volunteer, which is lower than most areas and about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents are much less likely to do heavy unpaid work at home, with only 16.8% spending 15 or more hours on housework. This is well below the national figure of 20.7%, and the area also has well below average rates of unpaid childcare.
11.6% ▲ +18.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.2% ▼ -4.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.8% ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
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.
Only 1.1% of people in Carnegie have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average.
1.1%
Lower than 67% 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 Carnegie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20498/carnegie/topic/community