20.0% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ombersley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ombersley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of volunteering than the state average defines community life in Ombersley. While 20% of residents give their time to volunteer, the area sees far fewer people providing unpaid childcare compared to the rest of Victoria.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in five people in Ombersley volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower here at 20% compared to the national figure of 26.3%. However, a slightly higher proportion of people provide other types of unpaid care, at 15% compared to 12.9% for Victoria.
15.0% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
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.
No one in Ombersley has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.0% seen in Victoria and the 2.8% national average.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Ombersley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22010/ombersley/topic/community