17.0% ▼ -27.0%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Leeton · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Leeton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher share of residents volunteer in Leeton than across New South Wales, with 17% of people giving their time. While community spirit remains strong, this figure has fallen by 6.3 percentage points since 2011. Other forms of unpaid work and service are more in line with national patterns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in the rest of the state, with 17% of people helping out. However, this is a drop from 2011 when 23.3% of the population volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 26% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is similar to the national figure. Meanwhile, the 19.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is much lower than in most other areas.
11.8% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 11.4%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▲ +26.8%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.2% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 19.2%
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.
Only 1.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas.
1.8%
Lower than 88% of urban centre 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 Leeton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114016/leeton/topic/community