18.6% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hurstbridge · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hurstbridge
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Hurstbridge provide unpaid childcare, which is much higher than most other areas. This strong trend of family support is mirrored in a high rate of volunteering and housework. These figures suggest a community with a significant amount of unpaid work happening in the home and the local area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 33.4% of people caring for children and 14.9% providing other unpaid care, both figures being above the state and national levels. Similarly, 28% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the 20.7% national figure.
14.9% ▲ +30.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.4% ▼ -4.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 33.2%
- 2021: 33.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.0% ▲ +5.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 28.0%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.1%, which is about the same as the 2% recorded across Victoria.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Hurstbridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21223/hurstbridge/topic/community