21.2% —
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Whitlands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Whitlands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 21% of people in Whitlands volunteer, a figure well above the national average. This reflects a strong community spirit in a place where residents are far more likely to give their time to others than those in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.2% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 39.4% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%—almost no one here provides unpaid childcare, which is far below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
9.1% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
39.4% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 39.4%
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.
No one in the area 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 Whitlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22773/whitlands/topic/community