20.3% ▼ -4.0%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bateman · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bateman
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people volunteer in Bateman, making it a place where residents are far more active in their community than the national average. This strong spirit of helping out extends to the home, with very high rates of unpaid care and childcare compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.3% of people here volunteer their time, which is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Childcare is a major part of daily life, with 32.3% of residents providing unpaid care for children, a figure well above the Australian average of 26.3%. Other unpaid work is less common, with 22.7% doing 15 or more hours of housework and 12.8% providing general unpaid care.
12.8% ▲ +32.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.3% ▲ +22.6%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -2.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 22.7%
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.
Defence service is common at a rate of 2.5%, which is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Bateman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50079/bateman/topic/community