16.3% ▼ -40.8%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Heywood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Heywood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual 15.1% of people in Heywood provide unpaid care. This reflects a community where more residents look after others compared to most similar areas. While child care is less common here, other forms of unpaid support and volunteering are slightly more frequent than the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.3% of residents are volunteers, which is a little above the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care of children is well below the national figure at 22.5%, but 15.1% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is higher than most areas. Meanwhile, 22.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, slightly above the national average.
15.1% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.8%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.5% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% ▼ -14.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 22.4%
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.
Around 2.7% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the state and national levels.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Heywood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21181/heywood/topic/community