22.7% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hilgay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hilgay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Hilgay have stepped up to help others since 2011, with volunteering and childcare roles now far more common than in most other areas. Nearly 23% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.7% of people in Hilgay are volunteers, a rate that is well above both the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Childcare is common here, with 31.8% of people caring for children unpaid, well above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, no one is recorded as providing other unpaid care, and the 13.6% who do 15 or more hours of housework is well below the national average.
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.
31.8% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.6% —
Lower than 89% 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 Hilgay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21188/hilgay/topic/community