17.4% ▼ -23.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gisborne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gisborne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Gisborne provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. This high level of family support is a key feature of the area's community participation. Residents here also contribute more to volunteering and housework than people in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in Gisborne, with 17.4% of people giving their time. This is well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent here, with 34.9% of people caring for children and 26.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both well above the national figures. Meanwhile, 13.4% provide other unpaid care, which is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.4% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.9% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 34.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 26.4%
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.
A little above the state average, 3.1% of the population in Gisborne has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.1%
Higher 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 Gisborne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21001/gisborne/topic/community