20.5% ▼ -30.9%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.6%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lexton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lexton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over one in five people in Lexton volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure. This strong spirit of giving is mirrored in the high number of residents who provide unpaid care to others in the community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.5% of people helping out, a figure well above both Victoria's 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many residents provide unpaid support, with 16.8% giving care and 25% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above the national figures. However, those caring for children unpaid (21.3%) are well below the Victorian and national averages of 26.3%.
16.8% ▲ +7.1%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▼ -21.4%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -28.8%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
No one in the area reported serving in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures for Victoria and Australia.
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 Lexton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21497/lexton/topic/community