21.3% ▼ -26.1%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Carisbrook · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Carisbrook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Carisbrook volunteer their time, making it a place where community contribution is far more common than in most other areas. While this is well above the national figure, the number of volunteers has fallen by 7.5 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.3% of residents volunteer, which is much higher than most areas and well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 27.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure. This is seen alongside a high rate of unpaid care, as 17.2% of residents provide care—a figure that rose 4.7 percentage points since 2011.
17.2% ▲ +37.2%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.4% ▼ -2.5%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.1% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 27.1%
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.
About 3.5% of people in Carisbrook have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
3.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Carisbrook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221017/carisbrook/topic/community