12.0% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Heidelberg Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Heidelberg Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local involvement in Heidelberg Heights has shifted since 2011, though it now sees lower levels of volunteering than most other areas. Only 12% of residents volunteer their time, which is a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 12% of people here volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas and slightly below the Victorian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 13.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is a little above the national rate, only 16.8% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—a figure well below the Australian average.
13.5% ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.4% ▲ +5.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.8% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.3%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 16.8%
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 less common here than in most areas, with 1.4% of people having served, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality 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 Heidelberg Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21168/heidelberg-heights/topic/community