14.7% ▼ -23.6%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
McKinnon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in McKinnon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 32% of people in McKinnon provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This high level of family care is the most prominent feature of how residents contribute to their community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.7% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and roughly the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid childcare is very common here at 32.6%, a figure well above the state and national average of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 13.3% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.3% ▲ +17.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.6% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -5.9%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 less common here than in most areas, with 1.2% of people having served, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.2%
Lower than 65% 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 McKinnon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21629/mckinnon/topic/community