13.6% ▼ -31.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Egerton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Egerton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Mount Egerton do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework a week, which is well above the national figure. This reflects a local community where many residents take on significant unpaid roles at home. Most other forms of community contribution here follow state and national trends.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 15.0% of people providing care and 26.1% looking after children, both figures similar to or slightly above the state average. This is consistent with the high rate of people doing significant unpaid housework.
15.0% ▲ +24.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.1% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.1% ▲ +6.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 29.1%
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 service is slightly more common in Mount Egerton than in Victoria, with 3.0% of residents having served.
3.0%
Higher than 55% 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 Egerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21792/mount-egerton/topic/community