21.0% ▼ -0.7%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Jarrahdale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Jarrahdale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people volunteer in Jarrahdale, making it a place where community contribution is much more common than in most other areas. Residents here are far more likely to give their time to others, with 21% volunteering compared to the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are well above the state and national figures, with 21% of residents giving their time, which is higher than in most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 28.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a figure well above the national 20.7%. This trend extends to caregiving, as 30.2% provide unpaid childcare and 14.1% provide other types of unpaid care.
14.1% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.2% ▼ 0.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 28.5%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.5% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 28.5%
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 proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force, at 5.2%, which is much higher than most other areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
5.2%
Higher than 82% 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 Jarrahdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50686/jarrahdale/topic/community