11.3% ▼ -28.7%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Blind Bight · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Blind Bight
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 32% of people in Blind Bight provide unpaid child care, a figure well above the national average. This high level of family care is a defining feature of the area, even as other forms of community contribution have shifted.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has dropped in the area, with only 11.3% of residents helping out. This is much lower than most similar areas and has fallen 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The proportion of people providing unpaid care is higher than most areas at 14.6%. While 32.2% of people care for children—well above the Victoria figure of 26.3%—the share of people doing 15 or more hours of housework has fallen since 2011 to 21.2%.
14.6% ▲ +17.5%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.2% ▲ +12.1%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.2% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 21.2%
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.
About 2.4% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than most similar areas but about the same as the national and state figures.
2.4%
Lower than 80% of urban centre 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 Blind Bight [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215014/blind-bight/topic/community