16.7% ▲ +21.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Forde · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Forde
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 40.8% of people in Forde provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the highest-ranking areas for this kind of work. This strong focus on family care sits alongside a high rate of military service and a typical level of community volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.7% of residents giving their time. This is a little above the national figure of 14.1%, though a little below the ACT average of 18.4%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 40.8% of people care for children unpaid—far above both the ACT and national figures—other forms of help are less common. Those providing general unpaid care (10.9%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (21.1%) are both lower than in most other areas.
10.9% ▲ +51.0%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.3%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.8% ▼ -3.6%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 45.6%
- 2021: 40.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▲ +2.4%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 21.1%
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.
Service to the country is very high in Forde, where 7.4% of people have served in the Defence Force. This is well above the national figure of 2.8% and a little above the ACT average of 6.0%.
7.4%
Higher than 90% 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 Forde [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80056/forde/topic/community