17.4% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eltham · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eltham
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 32% of people in Eltham provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with high rates of volunteering and unpaid care throughout the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.4% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, as 16.1% of people provide unpaid care and 25.5% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, both well above the state and national figures.
16.1% ▲ +26.5%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.7% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.5% ▲ +4.4%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 25.5%
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.
Around 2.4% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Eltham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20865/eltham/topic/community