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Freemantle · Suburb / Locality

Community Participation in Freemantle

How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.

Community engagement has remained very low in Freemantle, where not a single person reported volunteering in the latest census. This lack of formal volunteering is a striking gap compared to the national figure of 14.1%.

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📍 Freemantle, Suburb / Locality

Where Freemantle sits — Volunteers

0.0% —

All suburb / locality areas, 2021. The marker is Freemantle — lower than 99% of areas.

Freemantle0.0%
2795, NSW 15.0%
New South Wales 13.0%
Australia 14.1%

Participation

Volunteering for organisations and groups.

No residents in Freemantle reported volunteering, a figure that is far below the 13% seen in New South Wales and the 14.1% national average.

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0.0% —

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.

Unpaid care & work

Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.

While 12.5% of people provide unpaid care—about the same as the national figure—far fewer people here handle unpaid childcare (20.8%) or extensive housework (16.7%) compared to most other areas.

Defence service

People who served in the Australian Defence Force.

No one in the area reported serving in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.

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 Freemantle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11569/freemantle/topic/community