17.1% ▼ -37.3%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brown Range · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brown Range
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have stayed steady in Brown Range, with 17.1% of people giving their time to help others. This is a little above the Western Australian figure and well above the national average of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.1% of residents volunteer, a rate that sits around the middle for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here than elsewhere, with only 3.8% of people providing unpaid care and only 6.7% doing 15 or more hours of housework. This is far below both the state and national figures.
3.8% ▼ -69.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -12.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
6.7% ▼ -73.0%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 6.7%
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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
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 Brown Range [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50195/brown-range/topic/community