16.0% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
North Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in North Melbourne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 8.6% of people provide unpaid care in North Melbourne, making it an area with very low levels of caregiving. While volunteering is a little above the national figure, the suburb has a much lower rate of unpaid housework and childcare than most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and slightly higher than the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than in other areas, with only 14.9% of people caring for children and 8.6% providing any unpaid care. This is well below the national figures, and only 12.1% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework.
8.6% ▲ +19.8%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.9% ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.1% ▲ +21.6%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 12.1%
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 have served in the Defence Force, at 0.8%, which is a little below the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 North Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21966/north-melbourne/topic/community