40.9% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 40.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bulgana · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bulgana
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Bulgana is marked by a huge commitment to helping others, with half of all residents providing unpaid care. This community is far more active in volunteering and home support than typical Australian towns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Giving back is common here, as 40.9% of people volunteer. This is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and among the highest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent in Bulgana, where 50% of people provide care and 45.5% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are far above the national average, while 31.8% of residents also provide unpaid childcare.
50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.8% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
45.5% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 45.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Bulgana [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20380/bulgana/topic/community