19.8% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Booragoon · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Booragoon
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Booragoon has remained steady, with nearly 20% of residents volunteering their time. This is well above the national figure and shows a strong local commitment to helping others. The area is also marked by a high number of people managing unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.8% of people in Booragoon volunteer, which is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is common here, with 30.5% of residents providing this support, a figure well above the Australian average. This is alongside 12.5% of people providing other types of unpaid care and 22.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
12.5% ▲ +24.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% ▲ +13.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.1% ▼ -7.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 Force service is around the middle for similar areas, with 2.6% of the population having served, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 Booragoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50148/booragoon/topic/community