24.0% ▲ +175.6%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sea Lake · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Sea Lake
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in four people in Sea Lake volunteer, making it a place with a very high level of community spirit. This figure is far above the Victorian average and has climbed 15 percentage points since 2011. Residents are active in their town, though fewer provide unpaid childcare compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 24% of people helping out. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 14.7% of people provide unpaid care—a little above the national figure—those caring for children unpaid are well below the state and national average at 20.7%. About 20.1% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
14.7% ▲ +30.6%
Higher than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.7% ▼ -8.3%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▲ +14.5%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 20.1%
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 service is around the middle for similar areas, with 3.8% of the population having served. This is a little above the 2% seen across Victoria.
3.8%
Higher than 55% 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 Sea Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221063/sea-lake/topic/community