10.1% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sailors Falls · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sailors Falls
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 10.1% of people in Sailors Falls volunteer their time, which is well below the national figure. This is a sparsely populated area where community engagement and unpaid care roles are generally lower than in most other regions.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is uncommon here, with only 10.1% of residents helping out, a figure well below both the Victorian and national averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 15.9% of people provide unpaid care for children—far below the national figure—the overall rate of people providing some form of unpaid care is actually well above the state and national averages.
15.9% —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.9% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 17.4%
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 Sailors Falls has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures seen across Victoria and Australia.
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 Sailors Falls [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22223/sailors-falls/topic/community