21.5% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bellarine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bellarine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well over 20% of people in Bellarine volunteer, a figure far higher than the national average. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, from volunteering to supporting veterans and providing unpaid care at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Local volunteering is remarkably high at 21.5%, 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.
Many residents take on significant unpaid roles; 17.4% provide unpaid care, well above the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with a high 32.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate far above the Australian average of 20.7%. Meanwhile, those caring for children unpaid sit at 24.2%, slightly below the 26.3% seen in Victoria and Australia.
17.4% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.2% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.9% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 32.9%
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.
Service to the country is more common here than in most areas, with 5.7% of people having served in the Defence Force, well above the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
5.7%
Higher than 86% 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 Bellarine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20193/bellarine/topic/community