13.2% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Forest Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Forest Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Forest Hill contribute unpaid work or care compared to most other areas. Only 8.1% of residents provide unpaid care, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower here than in most other areas, with 13.2% of residents helping out. This is a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is uncommon in Forest Hill, where only 11.0% of people care for children unpaid—a figure far below the 26.3% seen across Australia. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly are among the lowest in the country at 14.0%.
8.1% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.0% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.0% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 community has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and a little below the state figure 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 Forest Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50513/forest-hill/topic/community