5.5% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Leigh Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Leigh Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Leigh Creek (Vic.) has shifted over time, now marked by a very high rate of unpaid home and family work. While few residents volunteer for organisations, nearly 18.2% of the population provides unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.5% of people in Leigh Creek volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 34.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the Victorian figure of 20.1%. This is consistent with the area having a higher than usual 29.1% of people caring for children unpaid.
18.2% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.1% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.5% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 34.5%
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, a rate that is a little below both the state and national figures.
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 Leigh Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21485/leigh-creek/topic/community