13.6% ▼ -50.8%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tooborac · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tooborac
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Tooborac is shaped by a high level of unpaid support, with 18.6% of people providing care for others. This rate is well above the national figure and much higher than most similar areas. While volunteering is more common in other regions, the community is heavily involved in supporting family and friends.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.6% of residents volunteer their time, which is lower than most areas but remains about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A much higher than usual 18.6% of people provide unpaid care, while 24.7% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above the national average. This sits alongside a much lower rate of people caring for children unpaid, at 19.0%, which is well below the Victorian figure.
18.6% ▲ +3.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▼ -25.8%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.7% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 24.7%
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.
Around 2.2% of the population have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Tooborac [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22533/tooborac/topic/community