18.4% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rochester · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Rochester
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five residents in Rochester volunteer, which is well above the national figure. This strong local involvement defines community participation in the area, though the proportion of volunteers has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.4% of people volunteer here. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria, although the figure dropped 5.0 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 17.9%. Meanwhile, 14.2% of people provide unpaid care, a figure that is a little above the national average and has risen since 2011.
14.2% ▲ +9.1%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.9% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.0% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 23.0%
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.
About 3.6% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the Victoria rate of 2.0%.
3.6%
Higher than 51% 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 Rochester [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215073/rochester/topic/community