12.5% ▼ -25.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Doncaster East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Doncaster East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few changes have hit community involvement in Doncaster East over the last decade, though the area now has a high own rate of childcare. Around 29.2% of residents provide unpaid care for children, which is higher than most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower than in most areas, with 12.5% of people pitching in, a figure that is a little below the national mark of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is a little above the state and national figures at 29.2%. Meanwhile, 22.4% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is lower than most other areas.
13.5% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.2% ▲ +8.5%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% ▲ +3.5%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 22.4%
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 1.2% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.2%
Lower 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 Doncaster East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20772/doncaster-east/topic/community