12.7% ▼ -36.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glenfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glenfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Glenfield provide unpaid childcare, which is a much higher rate than in most other areas. While family care is common, other forms of community involvement and service are less frequent here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are quite low in Glenfield, with only 12.7% of people helping out. This is well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very common at 33.9%, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, only 10.2% of residents provide other unpaid care, a result slightly below the Australian average.
10.2% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.9% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 33.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▼ -28.6%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 22.3%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas, with 3.3% of the population having served in the Defence Force.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Glenfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50557/glenfield/topic/community