16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 75.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gelantipy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gelantipy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back and helping out is a common part of life in Gelantipy, where 16.7% of people volunteer. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%. While community spirit is high, there is very little recorded unpaid care for the elderly or disabled in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of people in Gelantipy volunteer their time, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A quarter of residents provide unpaid childcare, but very few do heavy housework; only 16.7% spend 15 or more hours a week on it, which is well below the national figure. Notably, no one here is recorded as providing unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Victorian and national figures.
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 Gelantipy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20975/gelantipy/topic/community