27.9% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 27.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kongwak · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kongwak
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Kongwak than in the rest of the state. Roughly 28% of residents give their time to others, a figure that is more than double the Victorian average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 27.9% of people here volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the number of people caring for children is about the same as the national rate of 26.3%, 26.2% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the state average.
11.5% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.7% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 25.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.2% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 26.2%
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 result that is a little below the Victoria and Australia figures.
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 Kongwak [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21378/kongwak/topic/community