11.7% ▼ -35.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pioneer Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pioneer Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 28% of people in Pioneer Bay provide unpaid child care, making this the most common form of community contribution here. While many residents look after children, other forms of volunteering and unpaid care are less frequent than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 11.7% of residents helping out, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 28.3% of people provide unpaid childcare—a little above the national figure of 26.3%—other unpaid work is less frequent. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework (19%) and those providing general unpaid care (11.3%) are both lower than in most areas.
11.3% ▲ +58.7%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.3% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% ▼ -19.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 19.0%
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.
Defence service is more common in Pioneer Bay than in most areas, with 4% of people having served, which is a little above the 2% seen across Victoria.
4.0%
Higher than 72% 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 Pioneer Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22077/pioneer-bay/topic/community