12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mountain View · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mountain View
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly one in three people in Mountain View do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week, which is far above the national figure. This high level of home-based work is part of a broader trend where residents are much more likely to provide unpaid care than people in most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with 12.5% of residents pitching in. This is slightly below the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 20.3% of people providing help—well above the 11.9% national figure. Around 26.6% of residents care for children unpaid, which is about the same as across Victoria and Australia.
20.3% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.6% —
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.4% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 34.4%
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.
A larger proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most other areas. At 4.5%, this is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Mountain View [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21818/mountain-view/topic/community