42.6% ▲ +18.7%
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Genoa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Genoa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 42.6% of people volunteer in Genoa, a figure far above the national rate of 14.1%. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time to others than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 43% of the community volunteers, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and sits far above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 31.5% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—far above the national figure—only 16.7% care for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%. About 13% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is around the middle for similar areas.
13.0% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.7% ▲ +24.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.5% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 31.5%
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, a result that 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 Genoa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20980/genoa/topic/community