7.2% ▼ -73.1%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wellsford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wellsford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people volunteer in Wellsford, placing it among the lowest areas for community participation. While only 7.2% of residents volunteer, a much higher than usual share of people put in significant time doing housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.2% of residents volunteer, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 29.6% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the 20.7% national average. Other care roles are more typical, with 13.6% providing unpaid care and 24.0% caring for children unpaid.
13.6% ▲ +12.7%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.0% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.6% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 29.6%
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 Wellsford has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures.
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 Wellsford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22741/wellsford/topic/community