28.0% ▼ -4.9%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wandiligong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wandiligong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Wandiligong volunteer their time, which is far above the national figure. This strong local engagement is mirrored in the home, where residents spend more time on unpaid work and childcare than most people in Victoria.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28% of residents helping out, a figure far above the 13.3% seen across Victoria.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much more frequent than in most areas, with 30.7% doing 15 or more hours of housework and 30.5% caring for children. However, the 12.4% of people providing general unpaid care is about the same as the national figure.
12.4% ▲ +21.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.7% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 30.7%
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 higher proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, at 3.7%.
3.7%
Higher than 66% 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).
More for Wandiligong
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Wandiligong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22671/wandiligong/topic/community