25.0% ▼ -17.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.4%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gapsted · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gapsted
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people volunteer in Gapsted compared to the rest of the state. One in four residents gives their time to help others, which is nearly double the Victorian average. This strong community spirit exists alongside a low number of residents who have served in the military.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 25% of people here volunteer, a figure that is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 13.2%, though 14.7% of residents provide some form of unpaid care. Meanwhile, 24.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
14.7% ▼ -29.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.2% ▼ -40.0%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▲ +10.8%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 24.3%
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 Gapsted has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.0% recorded for Victoria.
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 Gapsted [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20964/gapsted/topic/community