22.1% ▼ -22.1%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Deep Lead · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Deep Lead
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than double the national average of people do significant housework in Deep Lead. This area shows a strong trend of residents contributing their time to others, both through formal volunteering and unpaid care in the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
A high number of residents give their time to the community, with 22.1% of people volunteering. 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.
Unpaid work is very common here, as 36.0% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is far above the national figure of 20.7%. This trend extends to other forms of support, with 15.1% providing unpaid care—well above the Australian average of 11.9%.
15.1% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% ▲ +4.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
36.0% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 36.0%
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 2.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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).
More for Deep Lead
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Deep Lead [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20727/deep-lead/topic/community