16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glenaire · Suburb / Locality
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Glenaire provide unpaid support to others than is typical across the state. Nearly half of residents spend significant time on housework, and child care is much more common here than in the rest of Victoria.
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in Glenaire, with 16.7% of people giving their time, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very high here, as 45.8% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%. This trend extends to other forms of care, with 33.3% caring for children and 16.7% providing other unpaid care, both of which are well above state and national levels.
16.7% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
45.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Glenaire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21015/glenaire/topic/community