10.5% ▼ -24.0%
Lower than 85% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Frankston · Sub-region (SA3)
Community Participation in Frankston
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Frankston volunteer than in most similar areas, with only 10.5% of residents doing so. While community volunteering has dropped since 2011, there is a high rate of people providing unpaid care for others in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.5% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%. This rate has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is common here, with 13.5% providing unpaid care and 28.6% caring for children unpaid, both of which are much higher than most areas. Meanwhile, the 19.8% who do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework is lower than in most other places.
13.5% ▲ +23.8%
Higher than 77% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.6% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 74% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.8% ▼ -7.5%
Lower than 64% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 19.8%
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 2.4% of the population, a figure that is lower than most areas and about the same as the state and national figures.
2.4%
Lower than 66% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Frankston [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/21401/frankston/topic/community