18.0% ▼ -7.1%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wonga Park · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Wonga Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 29% of people in Wonga Park provide unpaid child care, the most common form of community contribution here. This is a place where residents are more likely to help others and their families than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common, with 18% of people giving their time. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, though it has fallen slightly since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very high here, with 27.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is well above the Victorian average, alongside a much higher rate of people providing general unpaid care (16.3%) compared to the rest of the state.
16.3% ▲ +61.4%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.0% ▼ -20.5%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 36.4%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.2% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 27.2%
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.
Very few residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.9%. This is much lower than most other areas and slightly below the national figure.
1.9%
Lower than 87% 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 Wonga Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215091/wonga-park/topic/community