20.7% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dutson · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dutson
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Dutson volunteer, making it a place where community help is much more common than in most areas. While unpaid housework is very common, there is almost no unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is a strong part of local life, with 20.7% of people helping out. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is very common here, with 41.4% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, which is far above the national figure of 20.7%. However, 0.0% of people provide unpaid care for others, which is far below the Victorian figure of 12.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.8% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
41.4% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a result that is a little below the 2.8% national figure.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Dutson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20818/dutson/topic/community