12.0% ▼ -39.2%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Red Cliffs · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Red Cliffs
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Red Cliffs than in most other similar areas. Only 12% of residents give their time to volunteer work, a figure that has fallen by 7.7 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 12% of people volunteer here, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children has fallen sharply to 23.2%, which is well below the Victorian average. While 21.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, those providing general unpaid care rose slightly to 13.6%.
13.6% ▲ +19.3%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.2% ▼ -35.4%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▼ -25.8%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.7% of the population, which is lower than most areas but about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.7%
Lower than 73% 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 Red Cliffs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215070/red-cliffs/topic/community