16.8% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kilmany · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kilmany
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 20% of people in Kilmany provide unpaid care for children, making it the most common form of community contribution here. This commitment to care is mirrored in a strong volunteering spirit, which is well above the state average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in Kilmany, where 16.8% of residents give their time. This is well above the 13.3% figure for Victoria and a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 19.1% of people care for children unpaid—which is well below the state and national figures—overall unpaid care is much higher than most areas at 16.0%. Additionally, 23.7% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the Victorian average.
16.0% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.1% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.7% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 23.7%
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 to the country is more common here than in most areas, with 3.7% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Kilmany [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21351/kilmany/topic/community