10.2% ▼ -2.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dhurringile · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dhurringile
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people engage in unpaid work or volunteering in Dhurringile than in the rest of the state. Only 10.2% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This trend of lower community participation extends across unpaid care and defence service as well.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas, with only 10.2% of people helping out, well below Victoria's 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon in this area. Only 12.3% of people care for children unpaid and just 5.7% provide general unpaid care, both of which are far below the Victorian and national figures.
5.7% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.3% ▼ -16.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.0% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 0.9% of the population, which is a little below the 2.8% national figure.
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 Dhurringile [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20751/dhurringile/topic/community