10.9% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bell Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bell Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Bell Park spend their spare time volunteering compared to other similar areas. Only 10.9% of residents give their time to volunteer work, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are much lower here than in most areas, with 10.9% of people volunteering, a little below the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is lower than most areas at 23.5%, and 19.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework, which is much lower than typical. However, the 13.4% of people providing general unpaid care is a little above the Australian figure of 11.9%.
13.4% ▲ +24.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% ▼ -1.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.6% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 19.6%
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% seen across Victoria and the 2.8% national average.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Bell Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20191/bell-park/topic/community