13.1% ▼ -39.6%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kalimna · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kalimna
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher share of residents in Kalimna have served in the Defence Force compared to most similar areas. While 14% of people provide some form of unpaid care, the area has a much lower rate of people caring for children than the state or national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.1% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the state average at 17.5%, yet 23.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the Victorian figure.
14.0% ▲ +11.0%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.5% ▼ -33.0%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.6% ▼ -13.9%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 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.
Service in the Defence Force is more common here than in most similar areas, with 3.4% of the population having served.
3.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Kalimna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21282/kalimna/topic/community