21.4% ▼ -32.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Navigators · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Navigators
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Navigators volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This strong spirit of helping others extends into the home, where residents spend significantly more time on unpaid care and housework than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 20.9% of people providing unpaid care and 34.9% caring for children, both well above the national figures. Additionally, 32.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is far above the Australian average of 20.7%.
20.9% ▲ +55.8%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.9% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.6% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.3%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 32.6%
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.
A small number of residents, 1.9%, have served in the Defence Force, which is lower than in most similar areas and about the same as the Victorian average of 2.0%.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Navigators [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21903/navigators/topic/community