13.9% ▼ -26.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Colac · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Colac
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much lower rate of unpaid childcare sets Colac apart from the rest of the state. While around 22.6% of people provide unpaid care for children, this is well below the Victorian and national figures of 26.3%. Other forms of community involvement and service remain consistent with typical Australian levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.9% of people in Colac volunteer, which is lower than most areas. This figure is about the same as the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is well below the state and national levels, while 20.6% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is about the same as the national figure. Those providing other types of unpaid care sit at 13.4%, a little above the 11.9% seen across Australia.
13.4% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.6% ▼ -14.7%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -16.5%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.4% of the population. This is around the middle for its level and about the same as the 2% seen across Victoria.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Colac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20607/colac/topic/community