7.7% ▼ -20.9%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glenroy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glenroy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 11% of people in Glenroy provide unpaid care, a figure that is lower than in most similar areas. The community sees lower levels of participation in volunteering and unpaid domestic work compared to both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 7.7% of residents volunteer their time, which is well below the Victorian rate of 13.3% and among the lowest figures for areas of this type.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid domestic work is less common here, with 16.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well below the national figure of 20.7%. This trend extends to childcare, where only 21.9% of people provide unpaid care for children, well below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
11.0% ▼ -2.9%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.9% ▲ +1.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.5% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 16.5%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 1.1% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.1%
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 Glenroy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21047/glenroy/topic/community