14.6% ▼ -36.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 17.7%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wood Wood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wood Wood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher share of people who have served in the Defence Force live in Wood Wood compared to the rest of the country. While volunteer rates are typical for Australia, there are notably fewer people caring for children unpaid than in the state average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.6% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas but a little above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The number of people providing unpaid care is around the middle for similar areas at 13.4%. However, those caring for children unpaid are well below the national figure of 26.3%, while 23.2% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the state average.
13.4% ▲ +36.6%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.0% ▼ -11.4%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 30.6%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.2% ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 23.2%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most areas, with 4.8% of residents having served. This is a little above both the Victorian figure of 2.0% and the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.8%
Higher than 79% 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 Wood Wood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22832/wood-wood/topic/community