14.5% ▼ -37.8%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fyansford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Fyansford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Family life and care take centre stage in Fyansford, where a striking 37.7% of people provide unpaid childcare. This is far above the national figure and marks the area as one of the highest for childcare among similar places. Most other forms of community work and service follow general state and national patterns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people in Fyansford volunteer, which is a little above the Victorian figure and roughly the same as the rest of Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 37.7% of residents provide unpaid childcare, other forms of care are less common. Those providing unpaid care for others are much lower than most areas, and the 20.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework is about the same as the state average.
9.9% ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.7% ▲ +13.0%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 37.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.4% ▼ -22.0%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 20.4%
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.
Defence service is common at a rate of 2.3%, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the Victorian figure.
2.3%
Lower 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 Fyansford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20960/fyansford/topic/community