13.5% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mentone · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mentone
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Mentone is marked by a strong commitment to helping others, with 14.5% of people providing unpaid care. This is a little above the national figure and higher than in most similar areas. Most other forms of community involvement follow broader state and national patterns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.5% of people in Mentone volunteer, which is lower than in most similar areas and about the same as the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people provide unpaid care here than in most similar areas, though the 26% who care for children unpaid is about the same as the Victorian average. Meanwhile, 19.2% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is much lower than in most other areas.
14.5% ▲ +24.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.2% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 19.2%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.0% of the population, a figure that is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the state average.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Mentone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21648/mentone/topic/community