7.9% ▼ -27.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Taylors Lakes · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Taylors Lakes
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care define Taylors Lakes, where 16.7% of people provide support to others. This stands out as a key part of community life in the area, even though overall volunteer rates are quite low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.9% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the 23.7% of people caring for children unpaid is a little below the Victorian average, 16.7% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. About 21.1% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is about the same as across Australia.
16.7% ▲ +39.2%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.7% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▲ +9.1%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 21.1%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.0% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.0%
Lower than 67% 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 Taylors Lakes [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22474/taylors-lakes/topic/community