16.2% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Evelyn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Evelyn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 32% of people in Mount Evelyn provide unpaid child care, a figure well above the national average. This high level of family support defines the local community, where residents are also more likely to provide general unpaid care than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.2% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1% and the Victorian average of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is common here, with 16.1% of people doing so, which is much higher than most areas. This includes 25.9% who do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework weekly, a rate well above the 20.7% national figure.
16.1% ▲ +25.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 16.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.7% ▼ -7.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.3%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.9% ▲ +0.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 25.9%
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.
Around 2.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Evelyn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21795/mount-evelyn/topic/community