53.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 53.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cancanning · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cancanning
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than half of the people in Cancanning volunteer, putting it among the highest areas for community spirit. While 53.3% of residents give their time to others, the area sees much lower rates of unpaid care and housework compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is exceptionally common here, with 53.3% of people helping out. This is far above the figures for Western Australia (15.9%) and Australia (14.1%).
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common than usual, as 0.0% of people provide this support. Similarly, only 10.0% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is far below the national figure of 20.7%.
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.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 52.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
10.0% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 10.0%
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. This is a little below the Western Australian rate of 2.9%.
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 Cancanning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50241/cancanning/topic/community