12.9% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Riggs Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Riggs Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Zero people provided unpaid care in Riggs Creek during the last census. This is a sparsely populated area where community involvement and unpaid care roles are much lower than in other similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.9% of people volunteer here, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon in Riggs Creek; far fewer people care for children unpaid (12.9%) or do 15 or more hours of housework (16.1%) compared to the Victorian and national figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.9% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.1% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 16.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and a little below the 2.8% national average.
0.0%
Lower 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 Riggs Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22173/riggs-creek/topic/community