20.6% ▼ -31.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Briagolong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Briagolong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Briagolong volunteer, which is a much higher rate than the national figure. This spirit of contribution is a key feature of the area, where residents are more likely to give their time to the community than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common here, with 28.4% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, well above the Victorian figure of 20.1%. Meanwhile, 13.4% provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the state average.
13.4% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.7% ▼ -25.5%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.4% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 28.4%
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.
The proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force is 3.5%, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.5%
Higher than 64% 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 Briagolong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20330/briagolong/topic/community