17.9% ▼ -46.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Athlone · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Athlone
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost 40% of people in Athlone provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the most active areas for family care at this level. While many residents help out at home, the community also shows a strong spirit of giving back through volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.9% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid childcare is very common at 39.3%, which is far above the national and state figures of 26.3%. Other forms of help are less frequent, with 10.7% providing general unpaid care, which is a little below the national rate of 11.9%.
10.7% ▲ +16.8%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
39.3% ▲ +57.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 39.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -33.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% national average.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Athlone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20081/athlone/topic/community