17.9% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Rowan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Rowan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Mount Rowan now provide unpaid care, showing a strong trend of community support. This engagement is seen across the board, with volunteering and caregiving rates sitting well above both state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.9% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 20.8% of people providing care—a figure well above the national average of 11.9%. This includes 30.4% of residents caring for children unpaid, which is much higher than in most other areas.
20.8% ▲ +76.7%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.8% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
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.
The area has a higher rate of military service than most, with 3.7% of people having served in the Defence Force, slightly above the 2.0% recorded for Victoria.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Rowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21810/mount-rowan/topic/community