16.2% ▼ -26.6%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alfredton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alfredton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people provide unpaid childcare in Alfredton than in the rest of Victoria. While 33.2% of residents care for children without pay, other forms of community work and service remain closer to national levels.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is steady here, with 16.2% of people giving their time, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common in the area; 14.4% of people provide this support, and 22.8% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework. This is consistent with the high 33.2% of residents who provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the Victorian average.
14.4% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.2% ▼ -5.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 33.8%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.8% ▼ -4.1%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 22.8%
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 around the middle for its level, with 2.5% of the population having served, which is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.5%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality 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 Alfredton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20023/alfredton/topic/community