16.6% ▼ -50.0%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Jamieson · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Jamieson
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than double the national rate of Defence Force veterans live in Jamieson compared to the state average. This small community shows a strong spirit of service, with a higher proportion of people volunteering and serving in the military than is typical across Victoria.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.6% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 13.1% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national and state figures of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 12.9% of people provide some form of unpaid care, about the same as the state average.
12.9% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.1% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.6% ▼ -36.7%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.7%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 22.6%
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.
A striking 5.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas and well above the 2% seen across Victoria.
5.4%
Higher than 84% 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 Jamieson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21253/jamieson/topic/community