19.0% ▼ -16.7%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cardiff · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cardiff
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people do heavy housework in Cardiff than in most other areas, with 38% of residents spending 15 hours or more a week on these tasks. This high level of unpaid work sits alongside a strong tendency for locals to volunteer and support others in their community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people (19%) volunteer their time here. This is well above the figures for both Western Australia (15.9%) and Australia (14.1%).
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common in Cardiff, where 19% of people provide care—well above the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with the 29% of residents who care for children unpaid and the same high rate of people performing significant unpaid housework.
19.0% ▲ +45.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.0% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.3%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 29.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.0% ▲ +25.8%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 38.0%
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.
About 3.2% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the rates for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
3.2%
Higher 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 Cardiff [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50259/cardiff/topic/community