15.6% ▼ -29.2%
Lower than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Heywood · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Heywood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people have stepped up for unpaid work and volunteering in Heywood since 2011. While a little more than the national figure still volunteer, the number of people doing so has dropped by 6.4 percentage points over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.6% of people in Heywood volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas. This is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children has fallen to 20.7%, a figure well below the national rate of 26.3%. However, the share of people providing other unpaid care rose to 14.1%, which is higher than most areas.
14.1% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.7% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 21.1%
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 3.1% of the population. This is a little above the Victorian figure of 2.0% and about the same as the Australian average.
3.1%
Lower than 64% 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 Heywood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215040/heywood/topic/community