17.5% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Best · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Best
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Strong volunteer spirits define daily life in Mount Best, where 17.5% of people give their time to help others. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While few people here have served in the Defence Force, there is a significant local commitment to providing unpaid care for those in need.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that is well above both the Victorian (13.3%) and national (14.1%) rates.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is very common here, with 20.0% of people doing so, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is much lower than most areas at 17.5%, falling well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
20.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.5% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
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 the community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Mount Best [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21774/mount-best/topic/community