23.3% ▼ -29.1%
Higher than 75% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Trayning · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Trayning
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering defines daily life in Trayning, where 23.3% of residents give their time. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, although the number of volunteers has fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most similar areas. While 23.3% of people volunteer, this is a drop of 9.6 percentage points from 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Few people here provide unpaid childcare, at 13.9%, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 12.4% provide some form of unpaid care, and 21.4% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly.
12.4% ▲ +10.1%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.9% ▼ -44.6%
Lower than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -30.5%
Lower than 56% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 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.
About 2.7% of the population have served in the Defence Force. This is lower than in most areas and about the same as the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
2.7%
Lower than 61% 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 Trayning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58400/trayning/topic/community