20.5% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Doodenanning · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Doodenanning
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of giving defines Doodenanning, where 20.5% of people volunteer. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, showing a community that relies heavily on people stepping up to help out.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five residents volunteer, a rate that is well above both the Western Australian (15.9%) and Australian (14.1%) figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower here than in most areas. Only 15.4% of people care for children unpaid and 7.7% provide general unpaid care, both of which are well below the state and national figures.
7.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.4% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.8% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 12.8%
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.
No one in Doodenanning has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Western Australian rate of 2.9%.
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 Doodenanning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50420/doodenanning/topic/community