24.2% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Salisbury West · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Salisbury West
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive gap exists between Salisbury West and the rest of the state when it comes to unpaid work and volunteering. Residents are far more likely to give their time to others, with nearly a quarter of the population volunteering and many more performing significant unpaid care roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24.2% of people here volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 57.6% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly—far above the 20.7% Australian average. This is consistent with the fact that 30.3% of residents provide unpaid care, a figure well above the national average of 11.9%.
30.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% —
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
57.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 reported serving in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
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 Salisbury West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22227/salisbury-west/topic/community