17.7% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Piangil · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Piangil
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national average of 14.1%, 17.7% of people in Piangil give their time to volunteering. This suggests a strong culture of community support in the town, though fewer residents are providing unpaid childcare compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.7% of the community volunteers, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 15.1% of residents provide unpaid care—a figure well above the Australian average—only 19.8% care for children unpaid, which is much lower than most other areas.
15.1% ▲ +25.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.8% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -29.1%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 19.3%
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 higher than usual number of people have served in the Defence Force, with 4.2% of the population having served compared to 2.8% nationally.
4.2%
Higher than 73% 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 Piangil [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22065/piangil/topic/community