2.8% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Irrunytju · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Irrunytju
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Huge gaps exist between Irrunytju and the rest of the country regarding how people contribute to their community. While nearly half the population looks after children unpaid, very few people here engage in traditional volunteering. This creates a unique profile of community support focused heavily on family and care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 2.8% of people in Irrunytju volunteer, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring for others is common here; 49.5% of people look after children unpaid, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. This high rate of childcare is consistent with 16.8% of residents providing other types of unpaid care, a figure well above the state average.
16.8% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
49.5% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
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 community has served in the Defence Force, a rate slightly below the national and state figures of around 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 Irrunytju [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50673/irrunytju/topic/community