34.2% ▼ -17.2%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 37.1%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Forrest · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Forrest
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Forrest than in the rest of the state. About 34.2% of residents give their time to others, which is more than 20 percentage points higher than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 34.2% of people helping out. This is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% average for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a significant part of local life, as 17.6% of people provide care, well above the national figure of 11.9%. While 27.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, only 17.1% provide unpaid childcare, which is well below the state average.
17.6% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.1% ▼ -47.8%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▼ -19.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
About 2.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the 2.0% for Victoria and the 2.8% national average.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Forrest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20939/forrest/topic/community