18.8% ▼ -39.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hesket · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hesket
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local contribution and home-based work define daily life in Hesket, where 18.8% of people volunteer. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While fewer people here care for children unpaid, a very high number of residents spend significant time on housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Almost one in five people here volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is far more common here than elsewhere, with 33.1% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, far above the national figure of 20.7%. This sits alongside a lower rate of unpaid childcare, at 22.7%, which is well below the Victorian average.
13.0% ▲ +52.5%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.7% ▼ -13.3%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.1% ▲ +32.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 33.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Hesket [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21176/hesket/topic/community