14.1% ▼ -27.9%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Diamond Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Diamond Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a third of people in Diamond Creek provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the state and national levels. This high level of family support is a standout feature of the area's community profile. Other forms of volunteering and service are more in line with typical Australian patterns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.1% of residents are volunteers, which is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 16.2% of people doing so. This is well above the Victorian average, and 32.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is 6.0 percentage points higher than the state and national figures.
16.2% ▲ +39.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.3% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 22.7%
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.
Around 2.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a result that is about the same as the Victorian and national figures.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Diamond Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20752/diamond-creek/topic/community