15.2% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tabilk · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tabilk
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community engagement in Tabilk has seen steady levels of involvement in unpaid work and service. The area is most notable for its high number of former Defence Force members, with 4.3% of residents having served.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.2% of people here volunteer, which is a little above both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 21.7%. While only 18.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, the overall rate of people providing unpaid care is 13.0%, which is about the same as the state average.
13.0% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.1% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 18.1%
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.
A much higher proportion of people in Tabilk have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, reaching 4.3%. This is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
4.3%
Higher than 75% 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 Tabilk [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22417/tabilk/topic/community