9.4% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goschen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goschen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few residents have shifted their habits around community work since 2011 in Goschen. While unpaid care for others is much higher than in most areas, very few people volunteer for local groups.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.4% of people in Goschen volunteer, which is well below the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A little above the national figure, 15.6% of people provide some form of unpaid care. However, those caring for children unpaid are much lower than most areas at 18.8%, well below the 26.3% average for Australia.
15.6% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.8% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.8% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 18.8%
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 figure that is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 Goschen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21076/goschen/topic/community