26.6% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gooramadda · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gooramadda
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Gooramadda than in most similar areas. About 26.6% of residents give their time to others, which is a striking figure compared to the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.6% of people helping out. This is far 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 much lower than most areas. Only 7.8% of people provide unpaid care or look after children, and just 14.1% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well below national and state levels.
7.8% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
7.8% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.1% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 14.1%
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. This 0.0% figure is a little below the Victorian average of 2.0% and the Australian average of 2.8%.
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 Gooramadda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21067/gooramadda/topic/community