20.5% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bootenal · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bootenal
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of community contribution marks Bootenal, where volunteering is well above the national figure. About 20.5% of people here volunteer, a figure that stands out compared to most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in the area, with 20.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and 14.1% for Australia as a whole.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work patterns are unusual here; while 33.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework—far above the national figure of 20.7%—almost no one provides unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.9% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 33.3%
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.
Military service is more common here than in most areas, with 7.7% of residents having served in the Defence Force. This is well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
7.7%
Higher than 91% 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 Bootenal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50152/bootenal/topic/community