16.0% —
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 16.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brunswick (Northern Metropolitan) · State Electorate
Community Participation in Brunswick (Northern Metropolitan)
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid childcare in Brunswick than in other similar areas, with only 19.2% doing so. This reflects a community where a small proportion of residents are primary caregivers, though volunteering remains more common here than across the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.0% of people volunteer, which is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this rate has fallen by 4.9 percentage points since 2016.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the Victorian and national figures of 26.3%, while those doing 15 or more hours of housework are also much lower than most areas. Meanwhile, general unpaid care is about the same as the rest of the country at 12.2%.
12.2% —
Higher than 52% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.2% —
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.1% —
Lower than 88% of state electorate areas.
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 16.1%
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.
Defence service is among the lowest for this level of area, with 0.9% of people having served, which is a little below the 2.8% national figure.
0.9%
Lower than 96% of state electorate 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 Brunswick (Northern Metropolitan) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED21303/brunswick/topic/community