17.6% ▼ -61.7%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 46.1%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mystic Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mystic Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High rates of unpaid care and military service set Mystic Park apart from most similar areas. While 17.6% of the community volunteers, it is the significant number of people providing unpaid care and former defence force members that define the local profile.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.6% of people pitching in. This is well above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 15.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. In contrast, the proportion of people doing unpaid childcare (17.6%) is much lower than most areas.
15.5% ▲ +8.6%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.6% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.6% ▼ -57.4%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 17.6%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is much more common here than in most areas. At 5.4%, this is well above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
5.4%
Higher than 84% 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 Mystic Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21865/mystic-park/topic/community