12.6% ▼ -20.7%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
West Melbourne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in West Melbourne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 6.5% of people in West Melbourne provide unpaid care, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This lack of unpaid care and household work suggests a population with very different domestic pressures than most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most areas, with 12.6% of residents helping out. This is about the same as the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very uncommon here, as only 11.6% do 15 or more hours of housework and just 12.4% care for children. Both figures are far below the national average of around 26%.
6.5% ▲ +39.3%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 6.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.4% ▲ +15.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.6% ▲ +43.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 11.6%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.0%. This is lower than most areas and a little below the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
1.0%
Lower than 68% 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 West Melbourne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22757/west-melbourne/topic/community