15.8% ▼ -24.3%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher proportion of residents in Sale provide unpaid support to others compared to most similar areas. This is most evident in the high number of people who have served in the Defence Force and those providing unpaid care. About 14.3% of people provide unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other similar areas, though at 15.8%, it remains a little above the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 14.3% of people providing support, which is a little above the Victorian and national rates. Around 23.1% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, slightly above the national figure of 20.7%.
14.3% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.9% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.1% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 23.1%
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.
Defence service is very common in Sale, where 7.6% of people have served. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and is well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
7.6%
Higher than 90% 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 Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22226/sale/topic/community