14.7% ▼ -20.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Travancore · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Travancore
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Travancore provide unpaid care for others compared to the rest of the state. While about 14.7% of residents volunteer, the most striking feature is how low the rates are for childcare and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.7% of people here volunteer, which is lower than in most similar areas and roughly the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than in most areas; for example, only 14.6% of residents care for children unpaid, which is far below the Victorian figure of 26.3%. Housework and general unpaid care are also well below state and national levels.
8.7% ▲ +13.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 6.6%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.6% ▲ +3.1%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.9% ▲ +31.4%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 14.9%
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.
Only 1.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian average.
1.1%
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 Travancore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22572/travancore/topic/community