16.6% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Collie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Collie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Collie spend their time on unpaid housework than in the rest of Western Australia. This community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with a higher proportion of residents serving in the Defence Force than most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.6% of people in Collie volunteer, which is slightly above the national figure of 14.1% and about the same as the state average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common here, with 25.1% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Around 12.4% of residents provide unpaid care, and 25.8% care for children without pay.
12.4% ▲ +15.8%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.1% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 25.1%
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.
Serving in the Defence Force is more common here than in most other areas, with 3.7% of the population having served.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Collie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50310/collie/topic/community