17.4% ▼ -27.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Camel · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Camel
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering sets Mount Camel apart from the rest of the state. While 17.4% of residents give their time to others, the area also sees a notably high number of people spending significant time on unpaid housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of people helping out, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 28.9% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—only 12.4% provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the Australian average.
11.6% ▼ -26.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.4% ▼ -38.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.9% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 28.9%
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.
Defence service is more common in Mount Camel than in most areas, with 4.8% of people having served, a little above the 2.8% national figure.
4.8%
Higher than 78% 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 Camel [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21781/mount-camel/topic/community