15.0% ▼ -19.9%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Long Forest · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Long Forest
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care than most similar areas define the community of Long Forest. While volunteering is lower than in many nearby places, 16.7% of residents provide unpaid care, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15% of people in Long Forest volunteer, a figure that is slightly above the Victorian average of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 16.7% of people providing care and 25.3% doing over 15 hours of housework, both well above the national figures. However, the 22.5% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the same figure for Australia.
16.7% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -14.6%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.3% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 25.3%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.4%, which is a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Long Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21533/long-forest/topic/community