25.4% ▼ -18.0%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brookton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brookton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher rate of volunteering defines Brookton, where 25.4% of people give their time to help others. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and far above the national average. It marks the town as a place with very strong community involvement.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
One in four people here volunteer, which is much higher than most similar areas and 11 percentage points above the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure at 21.6%. Meanwhile, 12.1% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the rest of Australia.
12.1% ▲ +0.5%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.4% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 22.4%
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 2.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Brookton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50189/brookton/topic/community