20.2% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Port Albert · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Port Albert
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong volunteering spirit defines Port Albert, where 20.2% of residents give their time to help others. This rate is well above the national figure, marking the area as a place of high community involvement.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people here volunteer, a figure that is well above both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%. This is higher than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 12.4% of residents provide unpaid care—about the same as the national figure—very few people here provide unpaid childcare, at 16.3%, which is far below the Australian average of 26.3%. Around 25.7% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the state average.
12.4% ▲ +26.6%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.3% ▲ +19.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.7% ▲ +25.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 25.7%
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 3.8% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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 Port Albert [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22103/port-albert/topic/community