11.0% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ballajura · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ballajura
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Ballajura has shifted over the last decade, with a now-striking 27.6% of residents providing unpaid childcare. While child-rearing is a common activity here, other forms of community contribution like volunteering are much less common than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.0% of people in Ballajura volunteer, which is well below both the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national average of 14.1%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 27.6% of people provide unpaid childcare—a rate higher than most areas—only 11.0% provide other types of unpaid care. This is about the same as the state and national figures. Meanwhile, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are much less common here than in most areas.
11.0% ▲ +15.3%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.3% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 2.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for its level and roughly the same as the state and national figures.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Ballajura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50061/ballajura/topic/community