18.3% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ballarat Central · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ballarat Central
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Ballarat Central than in the rest of the state. While 18.3% of residents give their time to others, the area sees much lower rates of unpaid childcare compared to the Victorian and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.3% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is less common here than in most areas, with 22.4% of people providing it, which is well below the 26.3% state and national average. Around 12.2% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, a figure about the same as the rest of Australia.
12.2% ▲ +17.3%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.4% ▼ -17.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -4.7%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 19.3%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.0% seen in Victoria and 2.8% across the country.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Ballarat Central [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20111/ballarat-central/topic/community