9.7% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.2%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mepunga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mepunga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 26% of people in Mepunga provide unpaid childcare, which is a common rate for the area. However, other forms of community and home support are much less frequent than in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.7% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that is well below both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While childcare rates are about the same as the national figure, other unpaid work is rare. Only 12.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, and no one in the area provides unpaid care for others.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.9% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 12.9%
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 Mepunga has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Victorian and Australian averages.
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 Mepunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21650/mepunga/topic/community