33.9% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Serpentine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Serpentine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Serpentine volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement is mirrored in the home, where residents spend significantly more time on unpaid care and housework than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 33.9% of residents volunteer, which is much higher than most areas. This is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 35.6% of people caring for children and 26.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both well above state and national levels. A little more people provide general unpaid care here than across Australia, at 14.4%.
14.4% ▼ -17.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.6% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.9%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 35.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% ▼ -12.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 26.4%
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 lower than most areas and a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
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 Serpentine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22261/serpentine/topic/community