18.0% ▼ -15.2%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Manifold Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Manifold Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained a strong feature of Manifold Heights, with high rates of volunteering and caregiving. More than 18% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 18% of people in Manifold Heights volunteer, a figure well above both the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the Australian rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 18.1% of people providing unpaid care and 33.3% caring for children. Both figures are well above the national average, while 23.9% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
18.1% ▲ +29.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▲ +2.0%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 23.9%
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.
About 1.9% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is lower than in most similar areas.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Manifold Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21593/manifold-heights/topic/community