18.0% ▼ -24.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eildon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eildon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering defines daily life in Eildon, where 18% of residents give their time to help others. This is well above the national figure, marking the area as a place where people are highly active in their local community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% average for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the state and national figures at 15.5%, while 13.2% of people provide some form of unpaid care. Around 20.6% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is about the same as the national figure.
13.2% ▲ +39.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.5% ▼ -0.1%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 20.6%
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.
Military service is much more common here than in most other areas, with 5.6% of residents having served in the Defence Force. This is well above the 2% seen in Victoria.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Eildon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20850/eildon/topic/community