33.3% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 56.5%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boyerine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boyerine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering and housework set Boyerine apart from most similar areas. One third of residents volunteer their time, and over half the population spends significant hours on unpaid home duties.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are far above the national figure, with 33.3% of people in Boyerine giving their time compared to 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework is very common here, as 54.2% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid chores weekly—far above the Western Australian figure of 20.1%. While 33.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national average, no one in the area provides other types of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
54.2% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 54.2%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below both the state and national averages.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Boyerine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50171/boyerine/topic/community