21.1% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 21.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gwindinup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gwindinup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Gwindinup involves a high level of unpaid work and community effort. Roughly 42% of people care for children without pay, and volunteers are much more common here than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.1% of people volunteer, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 55.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the 20.7% national figure. This is consistent with the high rates of unpaid care for children (42.1%) and general unpaid care (23.7%), both of which are among the highest for similar areas.
23.7% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
42.1% —
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 42.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
55.3% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 55.3%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures of around 2.9% and 2.8%.
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 Gwindinup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50600/gwindinup/topic/community