7.5% ▼ -20.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Frankston North · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Frankston North
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 7.5% of people in Frankston North volunteer, which is well below the national figure. This low level of community participation is a defining feature of the area, where residents are less likely to give their time to unpaid roles than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very low here at 7.5%, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 13.7% of people provide unpaid care—a figure higher than most areas—fewer people here look after children (22.0%) or do 15 or more hours of housework (17.2%) compared to the national figures.
13.7% ▲ +22.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.0% ▼ -8.6%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.2% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 17.2%
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 2.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the 2.8% national average.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Frankston North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20948/frankston-north/topic/community