45.5% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mon Repos · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mon Repos
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all residents in Mon Repos give their time to help others, making it a place where community involvement is far more common than in most of the country. This spirit of giving is seen in the very high rates of volunteering and unpaid care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
A striking 45.5% of people here volunteer, which is far above the national and state figure of 14.1%. This is among the highest rates of volunteering seen in similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 40.9% of people providing care for others—a figure far above the 11.9% national average. This is driven largely by the 40.9% who provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the Australian figure of 26.3%.
40.9% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.9% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Mon Repos [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31874/mon-repos/topic/community