20.5% ▼ -24.8%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Porepunkah · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Porepunkah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Porepunkah volunteer, making it a community where helping out is much more common than in most other areas. This spirit of participation is a key part of daily life, though the number of volunteers has dropped since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.5% of residents volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%. However, this has fallen 6.8 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework and childcare are common here, with 27% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure. Conversely, the 9% of people providing unpaid care for others is much lower than in most areas.
9.0% ▼ -12.6%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.1% ▼ -6.4%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
Around 3.6% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the Victorian rate of 2.0% and about the same as the national figure.
3.6%
Higher than 52% 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 Porepunkah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221059/porepunkah/topic/community