17.0% ▼ -43.5%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Woodside · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Woodside
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the Victorian average, 17% of people in Woodside give their time as volunteers. This community spirit is paired with a higher than usual rate of Defence Force veterans and a strong commitment to unpaid housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17% of residents helping out. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the 11.6% who provide unpaid care is a little below the state level, unpaid housework is much more common here than most areas. About 26.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the 20.1% in Victoria. Meanwhile, the 17.6% who care for children unpaid is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
11.6% ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.6% ▼ -23.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 26.9%
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 more frequent in Woodside than in most areas. About 4.2% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above both the Victorian (2%) and Australian (2.8%) rates.
4.2%
Higher than 73% 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 Woodside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22841/woodside/topic/community