10.0% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Seabrook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Seabrook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Seabrook is heavily focused on the home and family, with 30.4% of people providing unpaid childcare. This is well above the figures for Victoria and Australia, though the area sees much lower levels of formal volunteering than most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10% of residents volunteer, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.4% of people provide unpaid childcare—a figure much higher than most areas—about 12.7% of residents provide other forms of unpaid care, which is about the same as the rest of Australia.
12.7% ▲ +27.6%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
Defence Force service is less common here than in most areas, with 1.8% of the population having served, which is about the same as the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
1.8%
Lower than 61% 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 Seabrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22247/seabrook/topic/community