17.6% ▼ -0.8%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gwelup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gwelup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Gwelup provide unpaid child care, a figure well above the national average. This high level of family support is the most prominent feature of community life here, alongside a strong showing of local volunteers.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.6% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Western Australian figure and well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very common here, with 35% of people providing this support, which is well above the national rate of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 21.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, and 10.5% provide other types of unpaid care.
10.5% ▲ +1.3%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.0% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.9%
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 35.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.8% ▼ -14.9%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 21.8%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force, with 3.3% of the population having served.
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 Gwelup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50599/gwelup/topic/community