11.1% ▼ -23.5%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sebastopol · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sebastopol
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Sebastopol get involved in volunteering compared to most similar areas. While only 11.1% of residents volunteer, there is a higher rate of people providing unpaid care than in most other places. This suggests a community where support is more often focused on family and individuals than on organised groups.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 11.1% of people helping out. This is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common than in most areas, with 14.0% of people doing so. However, those doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework are much fewer than in most areas, at 19.2%.
14.0% ▲ +12.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.7% ▼ -13.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.2% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 19.2%
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.
About 3.0% of people in Sebastopol have served in the Defence Force, which is slightly above the Victorian figure of 2.0%.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Sebastopol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22255/sebastopol/topic/community