14.5% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wattle Glen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wattle Glen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Steady patterns of service and support define Wattle Glen, where a high number of residents provide unpaid care. While volunteering remains modest, the area shows a strong commitment to looking after family and others in the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people here volunteer, which is lower than in most similar areas. This figure is a little above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and roughly the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is common in Wattle Glen, with 16.2% of people providing unpaid care, a figure well above the national rate of 11.9%. This includes 28.4% who look after children unpaid and 24.8% who do at least 15 hours of housework a week, both of which are well above the state average.
16.2% ▲ +33.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.4% ▼ -18.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.0%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.8% ▲ +2.5%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 24.8%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population. This is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the 2% seen across Victoria.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Wattle Glen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22727/wattle-glen/topic/community