13.1% ▼ -16.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bass · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bass
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving time to others takes different forms in Bass, where a high number of people provide unpaid care at home. While 14.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is higher than most areas, formal volunteering is less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.1% of people in Bass volunteer their time, a figure that is much lower than most areas and a little below the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 26.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, well above the national figure of 20.7%. This helps explain why 14.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is a little above the Australian average, even though those caring for children is well below the national rate at 19.4%.
14.5% ▲ +44.1%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.4% ▼ -32.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.2% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 26.2%
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.
Defence service is around the middle for its level, with 3.1% of the population having served, which is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.1%
Higher than 58% 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 Bass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20164/bass/topic/community