29.3% ▼ -27.1%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Metcalfe · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Metcalfe
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Metcalfe volunteer their time, a rate far above the national figure. This community is highly active in local support and service, showing a much stronger tendency to volunteer than most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 29.3% of residents volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is common here, with 26.8% of people spending 15 or more hours a week on unpaid chores, well above the national figure of 20.7%. Other care roles, such as looking after children or providing unpaid care, are about the same as state and national levels.
13.4% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.5% ▼ -9.3%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 25.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.8% ▼ -22.6%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 26.8%
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 much more common here than in most areas, with 5.6% of people having served, which is well above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Metcalfe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21671/metcalfe/topic/community