20.5% ▼ -9.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bluff Point · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bluff Point
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A significantly higher share of residents in Bluff Point give their time to others compared to the rest of the country. About 20.5% of people here volunteer, which is well above both the state and national figures. This community shows a strong tendency toward unpaid service, despite having fewer people providing care at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.5% of people helping out. This is well above the Western Australia figure of 15.9% and 6.4 percentage points higher than the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people provide unpaid care here than in most areas. This is most notable for childcare, where 20% of residents provide unpaid care, a figure well below the 28.5% seen across Western Australia.
11.7% ▲ +10.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% ▼ -16.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▼ -14.7%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 20.2%
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 2.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as the figures for both the state and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Bluff Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50132/bluff-point/topic/community