20.3% ▼ -27.6%
Higher than 64% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Shark Bay · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Shark Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A drop in volunteering and caregiving has seen community participation in Shark Bay shift since 2011. While 20.3% of residents still volunteer—a rate well above the national figure—this is a fall from 28.1% a decade ago. The area also sees much lower rates of unpaid care than most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.3% of people helping out, which is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia. However, this figure has fallen by 7.7 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than in most areas, with only 7.4% of people providing care and 19.1% caring for children. Both figures are well below the state and national averages and have fallen since 2011. Meanwhile, 21.4% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is about the same as the national figure.
7.4% ▼ -25.5%
Lower than 90% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.1% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 87% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 21.4%
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 3.9% of the population. This is much higher than in most other areas and sits a little above the Western Australian rate of 2.9%.
3.9%
Higher than 78% of council (lga) 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 Shark Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA57770/shark-bay/topic/community