20.0% ▼ -23.9%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Leitchville · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Leitchville
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates in Leitchville have dropped 6.3 percentage points since 2011, though they remain high. One in five people still give their time to others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.0% of residents volunteer, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and well above the Victorian average of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 19.0%, while 14.8% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure.
14.8% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▲ +6.9%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 36.9%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.9% ▼ -27.1%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 21.9%
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.
Very few residents have served in the Defence Force, at just 1.5%, which is among the lowest rates for areas of this type.
1.5%
Lower than 90% 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 Leitchville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222042/leitchville/topic/community