17.7% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ripponlea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ripponlea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost 18% of residents in Ripponlea give their time to volunteering, making it a place where people are more active in community work than in the rest of the country. This spirit of contribution stands out against a general trend of lower unpaid care and housework rates compared to the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.7% of people helping out, 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.
Unpaid care is less frequent than usual, with 10.8% of people providing care and 23.6% caring for children, both of which are a little below the national figure of 26.3%. Similarly, the 14.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is well below the 20.7% average for Australia.
10.8% ▲ +6.2%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.6% ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.3% ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 less common in Ripponlea than in most areas, with 0.7% of people having served, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
0.7%
Lower than 70% 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 Ripponlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22179/ripponlea/topic/community