19.6% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 19.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Howatharra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Howatharra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a third of people in Howatharra do a lot of unpaid housework, marking it as a place with high levels of domestic contribution. While this is a strong feature of the area, the community also shows a high tendency to volunteer compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.6% of people here volunteer, which is well above the figures for Western Australia and the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A huge 32% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, far above the national figure. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid (18.6%) and those providing general unpaid care (9.3%) are both much lower than in most other areas.
9.3% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.6% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.0% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 32.0%
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.
About 3.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the rates seen across Western Australia and the rest of the country.
3.1%
Higher than 57% 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 Howatharra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50658/howatharra/topic/community