23.0% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alexandra · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Alexandra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Alexandra volunteer, making it a place where residents are far more likely to give their time than those in most other areas. This high level of community spirit stands out, even though the number of volunteers has fallen since 2011. Other forms of unpaid work and service are more typical for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 23% of residents volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%. This is much higher than most similar areas, although the rate fell by 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national and state figures at 21.1%. However, more people here do 15 or more hours of housework than in the rest of the state, and those providing general unpaid care rose to 13.2% since 2011.
13.2% ▲ +29.0%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.1% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▼ -11.9%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 23.9%
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.
Around 3.6% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the 2% seen across Victoria and about the same as the national figure.
3.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Alexandra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215002/alexandra/topic/community