37.3% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.5%
- 2016: 37.7%
- 2021: 37.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carboor · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Carboor
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained a strong feature of life in Carboor, where nearly 37% of people volunteer. This is far above the national figure and puts the area among the highest for volunteerism. Most residents contribute significantly through unpaid care and home duties.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are remarkably high here at 37.3%, which is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common, with 39.8% of people caring for children and 31.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are far above the national average of around 26% and 21%. This is consistent with 16.9% of the population providing some form of unpaid care, which is well above the 11.9% seen across Australia.
16.9% ▲ +1.9%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
39.8% ▲ +47.4%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 39.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.3% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 31.3%
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.
A little more than 3.8% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the 2.8% national average.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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 Carboor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20484/carboor/topic/community