13.8% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.9%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Launching Place · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Launching Place
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 32.3% of people in Launching Place provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This highlights a strong presence of family care within the community, although other forms of community involvement follow broader trends.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of residents volunteer their time, a figure that is about the same as both the Victorian and Australian averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 25.8% of people doing at least 15 hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. Overall, providing any form of unpaid care is more common here than in most areas.
14.6% ▲ +26.2%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.3% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.8% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 25.8%
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.
Defence service is around the middle for its level, with 2.7% of the population having served, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Launching Place [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21473/launching-place/topic/community