26.6% ▼ -13.3%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dalkeith · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dalkeith
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Dalkeith spend their spare time volunteering, making it a place where community involvement is much higher than most areas. This spirit of giving extends into the home, where residents take on significantly more unpaid care and housework than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 26.6% of people helping out. This is far above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common in Dalkeith, with 33.6% of people caring for children and 26.1% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above the national average. Meanwhile, 13.3% provide other unpaid care, which is a little above the Australian figure of 11.9%.
13.3% ▲ +7.4%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.6% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 33.5%
- 2021: 33.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 26.1%
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.
About 2.3% of the population served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.9% in Western Australia and the 2.8% across the country.
2.3%
Lower than 55% 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 Dalkeith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50374/dalkeith/topic/community