23.8% ▼ -14.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hopetoun · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hopetoun
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 24% of people in Hopetoun volunteer their time, a rate well above the national figure. This high level of community spirit is a defining feature of the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time than people in most other similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 23.8% of residents pitching in. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is much lower than most areas at 21.5%, while those providing any form of unpaid care are at 10.0%, which is a little below the Australian figure. However, 23.4% of people do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the state average.
10.0% ▲ +32.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.5% ▼ -25.1%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.4% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 23.4%
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. About 3.5% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.9% for Western Australia.
3.5%
Higher than 65% 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 Hopetoun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50654/hopetoun/topic/community