22.4% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Woodend North · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Woodend North
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than double the national figure of residents volunteer in Woodend North, where 22.4% of people give their time to others. This is a highly active community where people frequently step up to help through volunteering and unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.4% of people helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A large number of residents handle unpaid duties, with 32.0% caring for children and 31.6% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures being far above the national average. About 13.6% provide other unpaid care, which is around the middle for similar areas.
13.6% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.0% ▲ +2.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 32.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.6% ▲ +2.1%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 31.6%
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.
Defence service is less common than in most areas, with 2.0% of people having served. This is about the same as the figure for Victoria.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Woodend North [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22834/woodend-north/topic/community