12.0% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pomborneit East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pomborneit East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people provide unpaid care in Pomborneit East than the state average. While 20% of residents provide unpaid care, the number of volunteers is much lower than most areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12% of people volunteer, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 20% of people providing care, well above the national figure of 11.9%. This is driven by children, as 56% of residents provide unpaid childcare, a rate far above the 26.3% seen across Australia and Victoria.
20.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
56.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 56.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 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 the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Pomborneit East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22092/pomborneit-east/topic/community