27.4% ▲ +13.0%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boort · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Boort
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in four people in Boort volunteer their time, making it a place with very high levels of community involvement. This spirit of giving is one of the most striking features of the area, as volunteering rates are far above the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 27.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria. This level of participation has grown, rising 3.2 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 13.5% of people provide unpaid care, the proportion of those caring for children unpaid is well below the national figure at 18.3%. Both childcare and housework roles have seen a significant fall since 2011.
13.5% ▲ +27.0%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.3% ▼ -36.0%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▼ -34.0%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 20.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.2% of the population, which is a little above the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
3.2%
Lower than 60% 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 Boort [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221008/boort/topic/community