21.6% ▼ -31.2%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 37.0%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wandering · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Wandering
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than double the national rate of volunteering is found in Wandering, where 21.6% of people give their time to help others. While this is well above the Australian figure, it represents a drop from 2011. The area shows a strong but mixed pattern of unpaid work and community service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.6% of people in Wandering volunteer, which is well above the Western Australian rate of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%. However, this participation has fallen by 9.8 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Far fewer people here care for children unpaid (18.8%) compared to most areas, but housework is more common, with 26.6% of people doing 15 or more hours a week. Meanwhile, the number of people providing other unpaid care rose to 12.7% since 2011.
12.7% ▲ +69.1%
Higher than 58% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.8% ▼ -44.3%
Lower than 88% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.6% ▼ -13.5%
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 26.6%
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 3.5% of the population, a figure that is higher than most similar areas and slightly above the state and national averages.
3.5%
Higher than 68% 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 Wandering [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA58680/wandering/topic/community