19.5% ▼ -29.9%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eagle Point · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Eagle Point
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Eagle Point volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This strong habit of helping out defines daily life here, even though volunteering rates have fallen since 2011. The area also sees more residents stepping up to provide unpaid care and support compared to most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.5% of residents volunteer, a rate well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 27.8% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 29.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. While 14.4% of people provide some form of unpaid care, those caring for children unpaid are much lower than in most areas at 16.9%.
14.4% ▲ +2.2%
Higher than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.9% ▼ -6.6%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.3% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 29.3%
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.
A much higher share of the community has served in the Defence Force than in most similar areas, with 4.8% of residents having served, which is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.8%
Higher than 75% 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 Eagle Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221024/eagle-point/topic/community