12.8% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bakers Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bakers Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high rate of domestic work defines Bakers Hill, where 29% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is well above the national figure of 20.7%. While housework is common, other forms of community involvement like volunteering are much lower than in most areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.8% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 29% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure well above the national average. In contrast, those providing unpaid care for others stand at 11.6%, which is about the same as the rest of Australia.
11.6% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.5% ▼ -14.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.0% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 29.0%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.7% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Bakers Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50051/bakers-hill/topic/community