0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Forrestania · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Forrestania
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap exists between Forrestania and the rest of the country in how people contribute to their community. While the area has an exceptionally high proportion of former Defence Force members, it shows almost no activity in volunteering or unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very rare here, with 0.0% of people helping out. This is far below the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much lower than most areas, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care or spending 15 or more hours on housework. Only 17.9% of people care for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.9% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
Military service is very common in Forrestania, where 13.0% of people have served in the Defence Force. This is far above the state and national figures, which both sit around 2.8% to 2.9%.
13.0%
Higher 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 Forrestania [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50516/forrestania/topic/community