19.6% ▼ -34.5%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Chiltern · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Chiltern
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Chiltern volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This high level of community spirit is a key feature of the area, even though the proportion of volunteers has fallen since 2011. Other indicators show a population that is more likely to have served in the Defence Force than people in most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. However, this rate has dropped by 10 percentage points since 2011, when it sat at 29.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower here than in most areas at 22.1%. Meanwhile, 14.0% of people provide unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure and has risen since 2011.
14.0% ▲ +36.3%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.1% ▲ +4.1%
Lower than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.1% ▼ -22.7%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 much more common here than in most similar areas, with 6.0% of residents having served. This is well above the 2.0% recorded for Victoria and the 2.8% across Australia.
6.0%
Higher than 87% 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 Chiltern [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215021/chiltern/topic/community