33.8% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Moorngag · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Moorngag
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of community involvement mark Moorngag, where residents are far more likely to volunteer than people in most other areas. Roughly one in three people here give their time to help others, a figure that sits far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 33.8% of residents volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 49.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. While 19.7% provide some form of unpaid care, only 12.7% care for children, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%.
19.7% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.7% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
49.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 49.3%
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 high proportion of the community has a military background, with 14.9% of people having served in the Defence Force, far above the 2.8% across Australia.
14.9%
Higher 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 Moorngag [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21753/moorngag/topic/community