19.5% ▼ -15.4%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Smiths Beach · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Smiths Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Smiths Beach spend their spare time volunteering, which is well above the national figure. This high level of community effort defines local life, though the proportion of volunteers has dipped slightly since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.5% of residents helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national average, despite a 3.6 percentage point fall since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is more frequent than in most areas, with 25.9% of people doing 15 or more hours a week. While 26.3% provide unpaid childcare—about the same as the state and national figures—12.0% of residents provide other forms of unpaid care.
12.0% ▲ +17.9%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.3% ▼ -17.7%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.9% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 25.9%
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.
Only 1.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.1%
Lower than 92% 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 Smiths Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222085/smiths-beach/topic/community