18.4% ▼ -8.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cable Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cable Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure, 18.4% of people in Cable Beach volunteer their time. This level of community involvement is higher than in both Western Australia and across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.4% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas. Only 7.6% of people provide unpaid care and 15.6% do 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below the national figures.
7.6% ▲ +15.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.6% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 15.6%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.4% of the population, which is about the same as the rates for Western Australia and Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Cable Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50231/cable-beach/topic/community