20.1% ▼ -30.2%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Katandra West · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Katandra West
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Katandra West volunteer their time, making it a place where community involvement is much higher than in most other areas. This strong spirit of helping out is matched by a high rate of unpaid care and domestic work within the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.1% of residents volunteer, which is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 19.8% of people providing unpaid care, a rate well above the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with the high number of people caring for children (31.6%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly (28.0%).
19.8% ▲ +85.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.6% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.0% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 28.0%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.5%, which is a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality 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 Katandra West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21309/katandra-west/topic/community