14.3% ▼ -34.4%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Winchelsea · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Winchelsea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A drop of 7.5 percentage points in volunteering since 2011 marks a shift in how people engage in Winchelsea. While 14.3% of residents still volunteer, the town sees more people providing unpaid care than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.3% of people volunteer here, which is lower than most similar areas and roughly the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 13.7% of residents doing so. Meanwhile, 23.3% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the Victorian average.
13.7% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▼ -0.2%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 23.3%
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.
Defence Force veterans make up 2.9% of the population, which is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure.
2.9%
Lower than 69% 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 Winchelsea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215090/winchelsea/topic/community