18.6% ▼ -21.1%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Grassmere · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Grassmere
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Grassmere provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This is a community where people are highly active in supporting others, both through formal volunteering and unpaid care at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.6% of residents giving their time, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a major part of local life, as 15.3% of people provide unpaid care and 23.6% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is most striking for childcare, where 33.9% of residents provide unpaid care—much higher than most other areas.
15.3% ▲ +51.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.9% ▼ -14.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.6% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 23.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.4% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Grassmere [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21092/grassmere/topic/community