17.9% ▼ -44.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kyvalley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kyvalley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Kyvalley provide unpaid childcare, which is much higher than in most other areas. This community shows a strong trend of looking after others and helping out, both through family care and local volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.9% of residents volunteer their time. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 33.6% caring for children and 17.1% providing other unpaid care, both of which are much higher than most areas. Additionally, 26.1% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, well above the 20.1% seen across Victoria.
17.1% ▲ +43.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.6% ▼ -1.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% ▼ -19.3%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 26.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.0% and the Australian figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Kyvalley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21416/kyvalley/topic/community