17.2% ▼ -25.3%
Higher than 75% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bairnsdale · Urban Area
Community Participation in Bairnsdale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 24% of people in Bairnsdale do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week, which is much higher than most other areas. The community shows a strong commitment to helping others through high rates of volunteering and unpaid care. However, the proportion of people volunteering has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in most areas, with 17.2% of people pitching in, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This is a drop from 2011, when 23.1% of residents volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 14.6% of people providing support, a figure that has risen since 2011. While 24.1% of people do significant housework, the proportion of those caring for children unpaid is 23.3%, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
14.6% ▲ +13.1%
Higher than 95% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 80% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -6.9%
Higher than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.4% of the population. This is a little above the Victorian figure of 2.0% and about the same as the national average of 2.8%.
3.4%
Higher than 58% of urban area 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 Bairnsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2002/bairnsdale/topic/community