52.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 48.1%
- 2021: 52.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Chowerup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Chowerup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over half of the people in Chowerup volunteer their time, a rate far above the national figure. This is a place where community involvement and unpaid home duties are very common, though there are almost no veterans or people providing formal unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is incredibly common here, with 52.4% of residents helping out. This is far above the 15.9% seen in Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Half of the residents, 52.4%, provide unpaid childcare, while 47.6% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework; both figures are far above the national average. In contrast, no one in the area provides other types of unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
52.4% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 52.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
47.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 47.6%
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.
Nobody in Chowerup has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
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 Chowerup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50292/chowerup/topic/community