24.5% ▲ +9.3%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Kingsford · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Kingsford
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in four people in Kingsford volunteer, a rate far above the national figure. This community shows a strong drive to help others, though it has much lower rates of unpaid childcare than most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and far above the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 15.9% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far below both the state and national figures. Those providing any unpaid care are also much fewer than in most areas, at 9.4%.
9.4% ▼ -6.3%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.9% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -13.7%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 20.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 4.7% of the population. This is a little above the national figure of 2.8% and much higher than in most similar areas.
4.7%
Higher than 78% 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 Kingsford [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50763/kingsford/topic/community