18.7% ▼ -22.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 18.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glengarry · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glengarry
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Glengarry provide unpaid childcare, marking a high level of family support in the area. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with volunteering and unpaid housework rates both sitting well above the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.7% of residents volunteer their time. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% figure for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 36.2% of people caring for children, which is much higher than most areas. This is consistent with a higher-than-usual 27.6% of residents spending 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework.
14.0% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.2% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 36.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.6% ▼ -6.7%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 27.6%
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.
Defence Force veterans make up 2.8% of the population. This is about the same as the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Glengarry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21025/glengarry/topic/community