20.8% —
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Macs Cove · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Macs Cove
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering defines daily life in Macs Cove, where 20.8% of people give their time to others. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, marking the area as a place where residents are highly active in their community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five residents volunteers here, a rate that is well above both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the Australian figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly—well above the national figure—the rate of those caring for children unpaid is much lower than most areas at 17.9%.
10.4% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.9% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 26.4%
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 very common here, with 9.8% of people having served, which is well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
9.8%
Higher than 95% 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 Macs Cove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21567/macs-cove/topic/community