11.3% ▼ -30.4%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Delacombe · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Delacombe
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people volunteer in Delacombe than in most similar areas. While only 11.3% of residents give their time to volunteer work, there is a stronger trend of people providing unpaid care for others within the community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 11.3% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here provide unpaid care than in most areas, with 13.9% giving care and 27.6% looking after children unpaid, which is a little above the national figure.
13.9% ▲ +13.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▼ -13.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 20.1%
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.
About 2.9% of people in Delacombe have served in the Defence Force, a rate that is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.9%
Higher 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 Delacombe [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20730/delacombe/topic/community