17.8% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Shady Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Shady Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people provide unpaid support and help out in the community in Shady Creek than in most similar areas. Around 17.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This spirit of helping extends into the home, where unpaid care and housework are much more common than across the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.8% of people pitching in. This is well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent in Shady Creek, where 32.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the national figure of 20.7%. This is consistent with high rates of unpaid care, including 32.9% of people caring for children, which is much higher than most areas.
15.1% ▲ +32.6%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.9% ▲ +144.7%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.2% ▲ +39.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 32.2%
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 2.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the 2.0% seen in Victoria and the 2.8% across Australia.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Shady Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22266/shady-creek/topic/community