21.8% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Invermay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Invermay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of residents in Invermay provide unpaid childcare, marking it as an area with very high levels of community and family support. This strong trend of helping others extends into both formal volunteering and domestic care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.8% of people helping out, a figure well above the Victorian rate of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common in the area, with 29.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is well above the national figure of 20.7%, alongside a much higher rate of people providing general unpaid care at 16.7%.
16.7% ▲ +39.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.2% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.1%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.4% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 29.4%
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.
About 2.3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.3%
Lower than 57% 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 Invermay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21236/invermay/topic/community