12.4% ▼ -48.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Nutfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Nutfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high proportion of residents in Nutfield now spend significant time on unpaid housework compared to previous years. This community sees 35.7% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework each week, a figure far above the state and national levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.4% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25.6% of residents provide unpaid childcare and 13.2% provide other unpaid care—both figures around the state average—the amount of time spent on housework is far above the Victorian average.
13.2% ▼ -28.8%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.6% ▼ -18.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.7% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 35.7%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most areas, with 3.8% of the population having served, which is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.8%
Higher than 68% 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 Nutfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21991/nutfield/topic/community