11.2% ▼ -16.3%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Chadstone · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Chadstone
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Chadstone volunteer or handle heavy housework compared to the rest of the state. Only 11.2% of residents give their time to volunteering, which is much lower than in most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 11.2% of people volunteer here, a figure that is a little below both the Victorian (13.3%) and national (14.1%) rates.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While about 12% of residents provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure, only 17.3% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—a result well below the Australian average of 20.7%.
12.0% ▲ +18.6%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.2% ▲ +6.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.3% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 17.3%
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.
Defence service is less common in Chadstone, with 0.9% of people having served, which is a little below the Victorian (2.0%) and Australian (2.8%) figures.
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 Chadstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20528/chadstone/topic/community