16.6% ▼ -43.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dixons Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dixons Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the state average for unpaid care, Dixons Creek is a place where residents give a lot of their own time to support others. About 16.3% of people provide unpaid care, which is much higher than most similar areas. This spirit of helping extends to the wider community and the nation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.6% of residents giving their time. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the 21.8% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national figure, other forms of help are more common. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework (27%) and those providing general unpaid care (16.3%) are both well above state and national levels.
16.3% ▲ +105.1%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.8% ▼ -28.3%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
A higher proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 3.3%, this is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.3%
Higher than 61% 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 Dixons Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20762/dixons-creek/topic/community