8.7% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Durack · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Durack
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer than 9% of people in Durack volunteer, a rate well below the national figure. This highlight the gap in community participation for the area, where volunteering and unpaid care levels are often much lower than across Western Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.7% of residents volunteer, which is well below the 15.9% seen in Western Australia and the lowest rate among similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 28.3% of people care for children unpaid—a figure slightly above the national average—only 3.6% provide other unpaid care, which is well below the state and national rates.
3.6% ▼ -42.3%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.3% ▲ +26.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% ▲ +74.3%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, a rate a little below both the Western Australian and Australian figures.
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 Durack [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50442/durack/topic/community