19.3% ▼ -19.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Strathmerton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Strathmerton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Strathmerton give their time to volunteer, making the area much more active in community work than the rest of the state. This spirit of helping others is a key part of daily life here, with 19.3% of residents volunteering their time.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.3% of people helping out, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A higher than usual 29.0% of residents provide unpaid childcare, while 13.3% provide some form of unpaid care, a figure slightly above the national average.
13.3% ▲ +34.5%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.9%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.0% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.0% ▼ -18.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 22.0%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Strathmerton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22379/strathmerton/topic/community