16.2% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sawmill Settlement · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sawmill Settlement
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high number of former Defence Force members helps define the social makeup of Sawmill Settlement. While volunteering is common, far fewer people here provide unpaid care or do heavy housework compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.2% of people volunteer, which is a little above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower here than in most areas, with only 6.8% of people providing care. This is well below the 11.9% national figure, and far fewer people provide unpaid childcare or do 15 or more hours of housework each week.
6.8% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.2% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.2% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 12.2%
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.
Serving in the Defence Force is very common here, with 9.9% of people having done so. This is well above the figures for Victoria (2.0%) and Australia (2.8%).
9.9%
Higher than 95% 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 Sawmill Settlement [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22240/sawmill-settlement/topic/community