0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Barrow Island · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Barrow Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Virtually no one is recorded as volunteering or providing care on Barrow Island, making it one of the least active areas for community participation. This sparsity of unpaid work is reflected across every measure, with figures far below both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are among the lowest in the country at 0.0%, which is far below the 15.9% seen in Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
No one on the island is recorded as providing unpaid care for children, housework, or other people. These figures are all far below the state and national averages.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 0.0% of the population, which is a little below the 2.9% for Western Australia and the 2.8% national figure.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Barrow Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50076/barrow-island/topic/community