18.6% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Upwey · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Upwey
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid care define the community in Upwey. This area sees far more people looking after children and the home than most other similar places, alongside a strong local culture of volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people here volunteer their time. At 18.6%, this is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 33.8% of people caring for children, which is well above the 26.3% seen across Australia. This high level of family care is consistent with more people providing general unpaid care (15.1%) and doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly (25.3%).
15.1% ▲ +21.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.8% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 33.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.3% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 25.3%
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 around the middle for its level, with 2.5% of residents having served. This is about the same as the 2% recorded in Victoria and the 2.8% national figure.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Upwey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22620/upwey/topic/community