14.7% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Healesville · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Healesville
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people provide unpaid care in Healesville than in most similar areas. While 14.0% of residents offer unpaid care and 26.6% look after children without pay, the number of locals volunteering has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.7% of people here volunteer, which is lower than in most other areas. This is a little above the Victorian figure of 13.3%, but the rate has fallen 5.9 points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are common here, with 14.0% of people providing unpaid care, a figure higher than most similar areas. This is alongside a high number of people doing 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well above the Victorian rate of 20.1%.
14.0% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.6% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.4% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 23.4%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.7% of the population. This is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.7%
Lower than 72% of urban centre 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 Healesville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214009/healesville/topic/community