23.8% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Heathcote South · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Heathcote South
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all residents in Heathcote South do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a community that is highly active in the home and the wider area, with many people contributing their time to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 23.8% of people helping out. This is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 47.6% of residents perform significant unpaid housework—far above the 20.7% national figure—no one in the area reported providing unpaid care for other people or children.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
47.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Heathcote South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21162/heathcote-south/topic/community