17.7% ▼ -29.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wandana Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wandana Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Wandana Heights provide unpaid childcare, which is a higher rate than most other areas. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with a high number of residents volunteering and taking on unpaid care roles at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.7% of residents giving their time. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are frequent in the area; 13.9% of people provide unpaid care, while 25.4% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly. This last figure is well above the Victorian average of 20.1%.
13.9% ▲ +31.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.2% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 29.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▲ +2.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
A small portion of the population has served in the Defence Force, at 2.6%. This is about the same as the figures for both Victoria and Australia.
2.6%
Lower than 52% 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 Wandana Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22669/wandana-heights/topic/community