37.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Warrabkook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Warrabkook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 37% of people in Warrabkook volunteer, a figure far above the Victorian average of 13.3%. This level of community involvement is among the highest for similar areas, marking the town as a place where residents are exceptionally active in unpaid work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are very high here, with 37% of the population pitching in. This is 23 percentage points higher than the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many people spend significant time on the home, as 37% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is far above the Victorian average. While 14.8% of residents provide some form of unpaid care—a little above the national figure—the rate of people caring for children unpaid is far below the state and national figures.
14.8% —
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.8% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
37.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 37.0%
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.
No one in the area reported serving in the Defence Force, a rate a little below both the state and national figures.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Warrabkook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22696/warrabkook/topic/community