26.9% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mepunga East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mepunga East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer here than in most other parts of the country, with Mepunga East seeing a huge gap compared to the national average. Nearly 27% of residents give their time to help others, which is double the rate seen across Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common in Mepunga East, where 26.9% of people help out. This is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A huge 42.3% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. However, the 15.4% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework is well below the Australian average of 20.7%.
13.5% ▲ +6.2%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
42.3% ▲ +45.1%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 39.6%
- 2021: 42.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.4% ▼ -40.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 15.4%
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 East has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21651/mepunga-east/topic/community