23.5% ▼ -41.6%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bridgewater · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bridgewater
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Bridgewater volunteer, making it a place where locals are far more active in community work than across Victoria. This strong spirit of helping others defines the local area's daily life.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 23.5% of residents giving their time. This is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and well above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 20.9% of people provide unpaid childcare—which is well below the national figure—more residents spend 15 or more hours a week on housework than in most areas. Overall, 13.0% of people provide some form of unpaid care, a rate about the same as the state average.
13.0% ▲ +85.9%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.9% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 26.1%
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.
No one in the area reported serving in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the Victorian and national rates.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Bridgewater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20333/bridgewater/topic/community