13.8% ▼ -31.6%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dinner Plain · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dinner Plain
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care in Dinner Plain than in the rest of Victoria. While volunteering is common, the most striking gap is the lack of residents caring for children or others in the home. This makes the community's participation patterns very different from the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas but about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon in Dinner Plain; no one reported providing unpaid care, which is far below the national figure. Only 18.1% care for children and 14.7% do significant housework, both of which are well below Victoria and Australia.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.1% ▲ +14.7%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.7% ▲ +39.2%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population, a figure that is about the same as the national and state levels.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20760/dinner-plain/topic/community