18.5% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Clunes · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Clunes
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back to the community is a common part of life in Clunes, where 18.5% of people volunteer. This is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia, showing a strong local commitment to helping others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.5% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 17% of people providing care and 28.2% spending 15 or more hours on housework, both well above the state and national figures. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 21.3%, which is well below the 26.3% seen in Victoria and Australia.
17.0% ▲ +10.2%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.2% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 28.2%
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.
More people in Clunes have served in the Defence Force than in most similar areas, with 3.6% of residents having served, a little above the 2.0% state average.
3.6%
Higher than 65% 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 Clunes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20580/clunes/topic/community