10.6% ▼ -18.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Baxter · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Baxter
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 25.3% of people in Baxter provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the most common ways residents contribute to their community. While many people support their families and others, formal volunteering is less common here than in most other Australian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.6% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 15.7% of people doing so, which is well above the Australian figure of 11.9%. This sits alongside 25.3% of people caring for children unpaid, a figure just a little below the state average.
15.7% ▲ +29.7%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 15.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.3% ▼ -13.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.9% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 19.9%
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 2.9% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as both the Victorian and national figures.
2.9%
Higher 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 Baxter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20169/baxter/topic/community