11.5% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Graytown · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Graytown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower rates of community involvement define Graytown, where only 11.5% of people volunteer. This lack of participation extends to unpaid care, while a surprisingly high proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 11.5% of residents volunteer here, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than elsewhere, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care and only 13.5% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well below the national figure of 20.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.5% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
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 striking 6.0% of people in Graytown have served in the Defence Force, which is well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
6.0%
Higher than 87% 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 Graytown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21094/graytown/topic/community