4.0% —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bandya · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bandya
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 4% of people volunteer in Bandya, which is far below the national figure. This sparsity of community involvement is seen across most unpaid activities, though the area has a slightly higher proportion of Defence Force veterans than most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very low here at 4%, a figure that is far below both Western Australia's 15.9% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care and housework are among the lowest in the region, with only 8.7% caring for children and 1.5% doing over 15 hours of housework. Providing any form of unpaid care is also well below the state and national figures at 3.3%.
3.3% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.9%
- 2021: 3.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.7% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
1.5% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 3.2% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is higher than most areas and slightly above the national figure of 2.8%.
3.2%
Higher than 60% 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 Bandya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50067/bandya/topic/community