12.4% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Capel Sound · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Capel Sound
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force than in most other areas, with 4.6% of people in Capel Sound having this experience. While military service is more common here, other forms of community contribution, like volunteering, are less frequent than in similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.4% of people volunteer, which is much lower than in most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is much lower here than in most areas, at 17.6%, which is well below the Victorian and national figures. Around 12.9% of people provide unpaid care, a rate about the same as for the state and nation.
12.9% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.6% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.8% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
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 4.6% of people who served in the Defence Force is much higher than in most areas, sitting a little above both the Victorian figure (2.0%) and the national figure (2.8%).
4.6%
Higher than 77% 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 Capel Sound [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20476/capel-sound/topic/community