17.5% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Clackline · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Clackline
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week in Clackline than in most other areas. This commitment to home life sits alongside a strong presence of former Defence Force members. Overall, the area shows a tendency to contribute through both formal volunteering and unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.5% of people helping out. This is a little above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 12.1% of people provide some form of unpaid care, only 21.1% care for children, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. However, 30.0% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
12.1% ▲ +2.3%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.1% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.0% ▲ +0.8%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.7%
- 2016: 31.7%
- 2021: 30.0%
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.
Defence service is more common in Clackline than in most areas. About 4.4% of residents have served, which is a little above the Western Australian rate of 2.9%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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 Clackline [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50295/clackline/topic/community