9.2% ▼ -40.8%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Long Gully · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Long Gully
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 9.2% of people in Long Gully volunteer, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages. This low level of community volunteering is the most striking feature of the area's social participation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most similar areas. At 9.2%, the rate is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 22.8%, and 19% of people do 15 or more hours of housework. However, 14.2% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the state and national averages.
14.2% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.8% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 19.0%
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.
About 2.5% of people in Long Gully have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Gully [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21534/long-gully/topic/community