50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 55.8%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cartmeticup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cartmeticup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 36 percentage point gap separates Cartmeticup from the national average in volunteering. Half of the people here volunteer their time, which is far above the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Half of the people in Cartmeticup volunteer, a rate that is among the highest for similar areas and far above the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 47.6% of people caring for children and 33.3% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both far above national levels. However, the 9.5% of people providing other unpaid care is a little below the Australian figure.
9.5% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
47.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 47.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 Cartmeticup has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national rates of around 2.8% to 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 Cartmeticup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50271/cartmeticup/topic/community