48.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 46.2%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gnowellen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gnowellen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 34 percentage point gap separates Gnowellen from the national average in terms of volunteering. This is a highly active community where nearly half of all residents give their time to help others. This spirit of contribution is much stronger here than in most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are among the highest for this level, with 48% of people helping out. This is far above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Forty per cent of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. However, no one here provides other unpaid care or does 15 or more hours of housework, putting the area far below state and national levels.
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.
40.0% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 40.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 Gnowellen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50565/gnowellen/topic/community