34.6% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 60.5%
- 2021: 34.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wilkur · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wilkur
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Wilkur give their time to others than in most similar areas. Around 34.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is far above the Victorian and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 34.6% of people helping out, which is 21 percentage points higher than the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life in Wilkur, where 38.5% of people care for children and another 38.5% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. Both figures are far above the national average, though the 11.5% who provide other unpaid care is a little below the state figure.
11.5% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.5% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 38.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.5% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 38.5%
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 Wilkur has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2% and 2.8% figures seen in Victoria and across Australia.
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 Wilkur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22785/wilkur/topic/community