10.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.1%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Homerton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Homerton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Homerton volunteer than in most other similar areas. While only 10.7% of residents do volunteer work, the area has a very high rate of people caring for children unpaid.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 10.7% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common here, with 35.7% of people providing this care, which is well above the Victorian average of 26.3%. However, no one in the area provides other types of unpaid care, a figure far below the national average of 11.9%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.7% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 35.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
No one in Homerton has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Homerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21199/homerton/topic/community