17.1% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Stockdale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Stockdale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people do heavy housework in Stockdale than in most other areas, with 45.7% spending 15 or more hours a week on these tasks. This high level of unpaid work defines the local community's contribution to home and family life.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.1% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much higher than most areas at 31.4%, well above the 26.3% state and national averages. However, the 11.4% of people providing other types of unpaid care is a little below the Victorian average of 12.9%.
11.4% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.4% —
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 31.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
45.7% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 45.7%
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 residents in Stockdale have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.0% seen in Victoria and 2.8% across Australia.
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 Stockdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22359/stockdale/topic/community