20.6% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goughs Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goughs Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 20% of residents in Goughs Bay volunteer, a figure well above the national average. This community shows a strong commitment to unpaid work and service. While few residents are providing unpaid childcare, a higher than typical number have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.6% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 14.0% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 13.3% provide some form of unpaid care, and 20.9% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
13.3% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.0% ▼ -29.1%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 20.9%
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 higher than usual 4.0% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
4.0%
Higher than 72% 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 Goughs Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21077/goughs-bay/topic/community