13.4% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Exford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Exford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap in unpaid care separates Exford from the rest of the country, where 35.1% of people look after children without pay. This is well above the national figure of 26.3%. While many residents are busy with family duties, volunteering and military service are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.4% of people in Exford volunteer, which is lower than most areas and roughly the same as the Victorian and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here; 33% of residents do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, far above the 20.7% national average. This high rate of domestic work sits alongside the high number of people caring for children and the 14.4% who provide other unpaid care.
14.4% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.1% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 35.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.0% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 33.0%
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.
No one in Exford reported serving in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the state and national averages.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Exford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20898/exford/topic/community