24.8% ▼ -48.6%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.3%
- 2016: 41.8%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Walpeup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Walpeup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost a quarter of residents in Walpeup give their time as volunteers, making it a place where community service is far more common than in most other areas. While volunteering is very high, other forms of unpaid home and care work are much lower than national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24.8% of people here volunteer, which is far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is uncommon here, with only 8.3% of people providing care and just 13.1% caring for children unpaid, both of which are far below the national figures.
8.3% ▼ -47.3%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.1% ▼ -54.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.3% ▼ -37.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 19.3%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% figure for Australia.
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 Walpeup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22667/walpeup/topic/community