29.3% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pomonal · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pomonal
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost 30% of people in Pomonal volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This community shows a much stronger tendency toward unpaid work and service than most other areas in the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 29.3% of people helping out, which is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the share of people caring for children is well below the national figure at 18.4%, many more residents handle unpaid housework, with 30.6% doing 15 or more hours a week. Overall, unpaid care is a little more common here than in the rest of the state.
14.8% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.4% ▼ -3.1%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.6% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 30.6%
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.
About 2.9% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.9%
Higher than 55% 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 Pomonal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22094/pomonal/topic/community