17.4% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tostaree · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tostaree
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Tostaree involves a high level of unpaid work and community spirit. Nearly 17% of people volunteer their time, while a very high number of residents spend their days caring for children and managing the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of people helping out, which is well above the 13.3% figure for Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life in Tostaree, where 34.8% of people care for children and 26.1% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures well above the state and national averages. In contrast, no one here provides other types of unpaid care, which is far below the 11.9% seen across Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.8% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 34.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 26.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Tostaree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22555/tostaree/topic/community