12.4% ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cardigan Village · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cardigan Village
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all residents in Cardigan Village provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This high level of home-based care defines the local community, even though other types of volunteering are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.4% of people volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care and housework are common here; 46.4% of people provide unpaid childcare, far above the 26.3% seen across Victoria and Australia. Additionally, 26.1% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure.
13.7% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
46.4% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 44.2%
- 2021: 46.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 26.1%
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 around the middle for similar areas, with 2.6% of the population having served, which is about the same as the 2.0% across Victoria.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Cardigan Village [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20486/cardigan-village/topic/community