13.5% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Seymour · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Seymour
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong military presence shapes daily life in Seymour, where 7.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is among the highest rates for any similar area and sits well above the national figure of 2.8%. Other forms of community contribution, such as volunteering and unpaid care, generally follow state and national patterns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.5% of people in Seymour volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas and slightly down from 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The number of people providing unpaid care has risen to 12.9% since 2011, which is slightly above the national figure. However, those caring for children unpaid have dropped sharply to 20.6%, a figure well below the Victorian average of 26.3%.
12.9% ▲ +24.2%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% ▼ -44.8%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 37.3%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% ▼ -15.7%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 very common here, with 7.1% of residents having served, a rate well above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
7.1%
Higher than 92% of urban centre 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 Seymour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214019/seymour/topic/community