11.6% ▼ -25.2%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sunbury · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sunbury
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Family duties dominate daily life in Sunbury, where 30.4% of people provide unpaid child care. This is well above the national figure, though the area sees much lower levels of community volunteering than most other places. These figures paint a picture of a community heavily focused on the home and family.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.6% of people in Sunbury volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 30.4% of residents provide unpaid child care, well above the 26.3% national average. This trend is consistent with other care roles, as the 14.8% of people providing unpaid care is a little above the figure for Victoria.
14.8% ▲ +23.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.1% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 2.7% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the 2.8% Australian average.
2.7%
Higher than 50% 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 Sunbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22391/sunbury/topic/community