16.4% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lower Plenty · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lower Plenty
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher share of residents in Lower Plenty contribute their time to others compared to state and national figures. This is seen most clearly in the 15.8% of people who provide unpaid care, a figure well above the Australian average. Most of these community contributions happen through volunteering and supporting family members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.4% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 15.8% of residents providing support—much higher than most areas. This includes 29.2% of people caring for children unpaid, which is a little above the national figure.
15.8% ▲ +42.4%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.2% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -5.2%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 22.7%
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.
Defence service is around the middle for similar areas, with 2.7% of people having served in the Defence Force, about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Lower Plenty [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21547/lower-plenty/topic/community