22.5% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Drummond North · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Drummond North
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Drummond North give their time to volunteering, making it a place where community involvement is much more common than in most other areas. This spirit of helping out extends to the home, with high rates of unpaid care and housework across the population.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 22.5% of people pitching in. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a big part of local life, as 30.2% of people care for children and 27.8% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are well above those for Victoria and Australia, while 14.2% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure.
14.2% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.2% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 27.8%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.8%. This is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.8%
Lower 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 Drummond North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20799/drummond-north/topic/community