9.5% ▼ -23.9%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sunshine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sunshine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people engage in unpaid work and volunteering in Sunshine compared to other parts of the country. Only 9.5% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This trend carries across to home life and caregiving, where local rates are consistently lower than state and national levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas. At 9.5%, the rate is well below both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care roles are less common in Sunshine, with only 10.7% of people providing unpaid care. This is a little below the national figure, and the rate of people caring for children unpaid is also well below the Australian average at 21.9%.
10.7% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.9% ▲ +2.9%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 21.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.4% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 16.4%
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.
About 1.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%, though it is about the same as the Victorian rate.
1.1%
Lower than 66% 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 Sunshine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22395/sunshine/topic/community