50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 65.0%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cherry Tree Pool · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cherry Tree Pool
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Half of all residents in Cherry Tree Pool volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement is seen across the area, where people are much more likely to provide unpaid care for children and perform housework than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 50.0% of people helping out, which is far above the 15.9% seen in Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is frequent, as 55.8% of people care for children and 34.6% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures being far above the state and national averages. However, only 7.7% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below most other areas.
7.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
55.8% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 55.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.6% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 34.6%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a result that is a little below the Western Australian figure 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 Cherry Tree Pool [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50287/cherry-tree-pool/topic/community