7.0% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Donnybrook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Donnybrook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 36% of people in Donnybrook provide unpaid childcare, far exceeding both state and national figures. This heavy focus on family care happens alongside very low rates of community volunteering and defence service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 36% of people provide unpaid childcare—well above the Victorian average of 26.3%—only 8.4% provide other types of unpaid care, a figure much lower than most areas.
8.4% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.0% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 20.1%
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.
Defence service is less common here than elsewhere, with just 0.8% of the population having served, which is a little below the 2.8% national average.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 Donnybrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20773/donnybrook/topic/community