28.2% ▼ -7.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Flinders · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Flinders
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering than most similar areas define Flinders, where 28.2% of the population gives their time. This far exceeds the national figure of 14.1%, marking it as a place with exceptionally high community involvement.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 28.2% of residents volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and 14.1% for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 20.1% of people provide unpaid childcare—well below the national figure of 26.3%—others are very active at home. About 28% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the Australian average of 20.7%.
14.7% ▲ +3.3%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.1% ▼ -13.9%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.0% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 28.0%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3% of the population, which is a little above the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Flinders [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20930/flinders/topic/community