16.4% ▼ -27.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Clear · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Clear
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Mount Clear provide unpaid childcare, making it a place where family support plays a huge role in daily life. This community is more active than the national average in both volunteering and caring for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.4% of residents volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common here, with 30.3% of people helping out, which is well above the state and national figures of 26.3%. In contrast, 20.9% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate lower than most areas.
13.3% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 30.9%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 20.9%
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 Force veterans make up 3.0% of the population, which is a little above the Victorian rate of 2.0% and about the same as the national figure.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Clear [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21783/mount-clear/topic/community