17.3% ▼ -49.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Buffalo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Buffalo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national average of 14.1%, 17.3% of people in Buffalo volunteer their time. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with high rates of both volunteering and unpaid care. Local participation in these roles is notably higher than in Victoria and across Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.3% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the national figure of 14.1%. This level of involvement is around the middle for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People providing unpaid care make up 16.5% of the population, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. Meanwhile, 25.3% provide unpaid childcare, a rate about the same as the 26.3% seen across Australia.
16.5% ▲ +47.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.3% ▼ -18.7%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▼ -36.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 20.7%
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.
Only 1.3% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Australian average of 2.8% and lower than most other areas.
1.3%
Lower than 65% 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 Buffalo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20375/buffalo/topic/community