16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Willung · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Willung
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Willung involves a high level of service to others, with 11.6% of residents having served in the Defence Force. This community is more active in volunteering and unpaid home duties than the typical Australian town.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of people volunteer their time, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many residents handle significant unpaid work, with 27.3% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework, a figure well above the national average. This is alongside 28.8% who care for children unpaid, which is a little above the Australian rate of 26.3%. However, those providing other types of unpaid care are a little below the national figure at 10.6%.
10.6% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.8% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.3% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 27.3%
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.
Military service is very common here, as 11.6% of the population served in the Defence Force, which is well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
11.6%
Higher 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 Willung [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22797/willung/topic/community