22.7% ▼ -12.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Inverloch · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Inverloch
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well over 22% of people in Inverloch volunteer their time, a figure far higher than the state and national averages. This local spirit of helping out extends to the home, where many more residents provide unpaid care and housework than in other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.7% of residents giving their time. 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.
Unpaid work is very frequent in this area, as 28.8% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Around 15.1% of residents provide unpaid care, a rate that is well above the Australian average.
15.1% ▲ +29.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.2% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.8% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 28.8%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.3% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas and a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.3%
Higher than 61% 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 Inverloch [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21235/inverloch/topic/community