9.6% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Point Cook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Point Cook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 40% of people in Point Cook provide unpaid child care, which is far above the national figure. This high rate of parenting is a defining feature of the area's community life, despite lower levels of general volunteering and care for other family members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 39.9% of people provide unpaid child care—among the highest rates for any similar area—only 9.9% provide general unpaid care, which is much lower than most areas. Around 21.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is about the same as the national figure.
9.9% ▲ +17.7%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.4%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
39.9% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.8%
- 2016: 42.0%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.6% ▼ -1.9%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 21.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.5% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Point Cook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22086/point-cook/topic/community