16.7% ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Elwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Elwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high rate of volunteering shapes daily life in Elwood, where 16.7% of residents give their time to help others. This is well above the state figure, though the area sees far fewer people providing unpaid childcare or doing heavy housework than most other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.7% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and a little above the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Far fewer people in Elwood provide unpaid childcare or do 15 or more hours of housework compared to the state and national figures. However, 12.7% provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
12.7% ▲ +46.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▲ +2.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.9% ▲ +27.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 14.9%
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.
Only 1.2% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average.
1.2%
Lower than 66% 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 Elwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20867/elwood/topic/community