17.8% ▼ -23.7%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Trafalgar · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Trafalgar
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Trafalgar provide unpaid child care, making it a place where family support is a major part of daily life. While volunteering has dropped since 2011, residents are still more likely to give their time to the community than people in other parts of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.8% of people volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%. However, this is a drop of 5.5 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 29.4% of people looking after children and 14.0% providing general unpaid care, both of which are higher than most areas. Additionally, 25.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure that has risen since 2011.
14.0% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.4% ▲ +20.8%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most similar areas, with 2.7% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.7%
Lower than 72% 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 Trafalgar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215086/trafalgar/topic/community