19.5% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Vaucluse · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Vaucluse
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Vaucluse sits around the middle of similar areas for community involvement, though it shows a strong tendency toward volunteering. Nearly one in five residents gives their time to others, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.5% of people pitching in, which is well above the 14.1% figure for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly 30% of residents provide unpaid childcare, a rate well above the national average of 26.3%. While 13.4% of people provide some form of unpaid care, about 21% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
13.4% ▲ +21.0%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.6% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 29.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.0% ▲ +17.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 21.0%
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.
Only 1.4% of people in Vaucluse have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% national figure.
1.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality 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 Vaucluse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14089/vaucluse/topic/community