21.6% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Timboon West · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Timboon West
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Timboon West contribute their time to others than in the rest of the state. This is seen in the high rates of volunteering and unpaid childcare, which both sit well above national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is very common at 40.5%, far above the national figure of 26.3%. While 27% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, no one in the area reported providing other types of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.5% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 47.1%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.2%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than elsewhere, with 8.6% of people having served, compared to just 2% across Victoria.
8.6%
Higher than 92% 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 Timboon West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22517/timboon-west/topic/community