43.6% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.7%
- 2016: 48.9%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dunkeld · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dunkeld
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 43.6% of people in Dunkeld volunteer, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents contribute significantly more time to unpaid work and local support than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is exceptionally common here, with 43.6% of residents helping out. This is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here handle unpaid housework for 15 hours or more a week (27.0%) compared to the national figure of 20.7%. Unpaid childcare is also slightly higher than the state average at 27.3%.
12.1% ▲ +1.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% ▲ +16.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 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.
About 2.6% of the community has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Dunkeld [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20809/dunkeld/topic/community