17.0% ▼ -9.2%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caulfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Caulfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Around 17% of people in Caulfield volunteer, placing it in the middle of similar areas. This is a bit more common than the national figure, though a significant number of residents also provide unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in the rest of Victoria, where the figure is 13.3%, and a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While about 25.4% of people provide unpaid childcare—roughly the same as the national figure—the area has a higher than usual rate of people providing other unpaid care at 15.1%. Conversely, only 15.5% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well below the national average.
15.1% ▲ +30.0%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.4% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.5% ▲ +2.2%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 15.5%
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.
Only 1.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than in most other areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Caulfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20521/caulfield/topic/community