8.3% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Breakwater · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Breakwater
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 8.3% of people in Breakwater volunteer, which is a much lower rate than across the rest of the country. While a fair number of residents provide some form of unpaid care, overall community participation in formal volunteering is quite low for the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest for areas of this type, with Breakwater's 8.3% sitting well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 13.1% of people provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the state average. However, those caring for children unpaid (20.2%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (19.4%) are both well below national figures.
13.1% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.2% ▼ -25.3%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.4% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 19.4%
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.
A higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most similar areas, with 3.4% of the population having served.
3.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Breakwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20326/breakwater/topic/community