16.7% ▼ -25.8%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rippleside · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rippleside
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Rippleside provide unpaid child care, making it one of the most active areas for family support. This strong trend of helping others extends across the community, with high rates of unpaid care and volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, as 17.0% of people provide this support—well above the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with the 29.2% who provide unpaid child care, a rate higher than most areas.
17.0% ▲ +46.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.2% ▼ -15.6%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 32.9%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▼ -13.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most other areas, with 3.4% of the population having served, which is a little above the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
3.4%
Higher 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 Rippleside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22178/rippleside/topic/community