9.8% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.8%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wandella · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wandella
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high number of residents in Wandella provide unpaid care for others, despite low levels of formal volunteering. About 17.6% of people provide unpaid care, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.8% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 23.5% of people provide unpaid childcare—slightly below the national figure of 26.3%—the area has a much higher rate of general unpaid carers than most areas. Around 21.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is about the same as the national rate.
17.6% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.5% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 23.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.6% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 national figure of 2.8%.
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 Wandella [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22670/wandella/topic/community