23.1% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 65.0%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fiery Flat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fiery Flat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Fiery Flat volunteer, a rate well above the national average. This is a sparsely populated area where community contribution is high, though very few residents are providing unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are high here at 23.1%, 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.
While 34.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%—no one here provides unpaid childcare. Unpaid care for others is provided by 11.5% of residents, which is a little below the state average.
11.5% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.6% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 34.6%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure a little below both the Victorian and Australian averages.
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 Fiery Flat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20919/fiery-flat/topic/community