17.5% ▲ +6.0%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bassendean · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bassendean
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Bassendean sits around the middle of similar areas for its levels of community involvement. While many locals contribute their time, 17.5% of people here volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is more common here than in most of the country. At 17.5%, this is a little above the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid childcare is more common than in most areas, with 28% of residents doing so. However, the proportion of people providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework is lower than in most areas.
11.8% ▲ +22.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.0% ▲ +0.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▼ -7.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 20.7%
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 2.9% of people in Bassendean have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Bassendean [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50078/bassendean/topic/community