17.4% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Buckingham · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Buckingham
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap between local care levels and the rest of the country defines Buckingham, where nearly 40% of people provide unpaid care. This far exceeds both state and national figures, marking the area as a place with very high levels of community support and home-based work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.4% of people pitching in. This is a little above the Western Australian figure and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very prevalent, as 39.1% of people provide care—far above the state and national rates. This is consistent with 30.4% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework, though the 17.4% who care for children unpaid is far below the state average.
39.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
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 rates seen across Western Australia and the rest of the country.
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 Buckingham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50198/buckingham/topic/community