27.7% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 27.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Forge Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Forge Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteering and service have remained strong in Forge Creek, where community involvement is far higher than in most other areas. Roughly 28% of people give their time to volunteer, which is more than double the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 27.7% of people here volunteer, a figure that is far above both the Victorian and Australian averages by 14 percentage points.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 21.5% of residents provide unpaid childcare—which is well below the national figure—a higher than usual 28.4% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework. Unpaid care for others sits at 12.5%, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
12.5% ▲ +0.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.5% ▼ -33.0%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.4% ▼ -5.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 28.4%
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.
A much higher proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 5.1% of people having served.
5.1%
Higher than 81% 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 Forge Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20938/forge-creek/topic/community