19.5% ▲ +4.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Como · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Como
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Como give their time to volunteer, making it a community where people are far more active in local causes than the national average. This spirit of participation contrasts with a local trend of having much lower rates of unpaid care and housework compared to other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.5% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the Western Australian average of 15.9% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people here take on unpaid burdens, with only 22.9% caring for children and 16.5% doing heavy housework, both of which are well below the national figures. Those providing other types of unpaid care sit at 9.8%, which is much lower than most areas.
9.8% ▲ +19.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.9% ▲ +20.8%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.5% ▲ +4.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 16.5%
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.
About 2.3% of the population served in the Defence Force, a rate that is about the same as both the state and national figures.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Como [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50316/como/topic/community