19.0% ▼ -56.0%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 44.4%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Point Leo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Point Leo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Point Leo pitch in through unpaid work and volunteering than in the rest of the state. Nearly one in five residents volunteer their time, and there is a strong trend of providing unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.0% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 19.0% of people provide unpaid childcare—well below the national figure of 26.3%—unpaid care for others is much higher than most areas at 18.4%. Additionally, 24.7% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the Victorian average.
18.4% ▲ +50.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▼ -38.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.7% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 24.7%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.9% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas and a little above the figures for Victoria and Australia.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Point Leo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22087/point-leo/topic/community