18.3% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 18.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caniambo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Caniambo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Caniambo provide unpaid care than the national figure. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with high rates of volunteering and an unusually high proportion of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.3% of residents volunteer, which is well above both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 22.5% of people providing care—far above the national figure of 11.9%. While slightly more people do 15 or more hours of housework than the national average, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is well below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
22.5% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.7% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% —
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 22.5%
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.
Defence service is much more common in Caniambo than in most areas, with 6.8% of residents having served, well above the 2.8% national average.
6.8%
Higher than 88% 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 Caniambo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20463/caniambo/topic/community