18.6% ▼ -39.8%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cathcart · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cathcart
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Cathcart volunteer, making it a community where local contribution is much more common than in the state or national average. This spirit of participation is seen across the area, though it is less common for residents to provide unpaid care compared to other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is a strong feature of the area, with 18.6% of residents giving their time. This is well above the figures for Victoria (13.3%) and Australia (14.1%).
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 8.2% of people providing care and 19.6% caring for children unpaid. This is well below the national figure of 26.3% for child care.
8.2% ▼ -37.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 8.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.6% ▼ -38.4%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 40.3%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -31.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 36.4%
- 2021: 20.6%
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 here than in most areas, with 4.4% of people having served. This is a little above the Victorian figure of 2.0% and the national average of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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 Cathcart [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20518/cathcart/topic/community