10.6% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Argyle · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Argyle
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Lake Argyle than in most other areas. While only 10.6% of residents give their time to volunteer work, there is a very high rate of people caring for children unpaid, at 31.9%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.6% of the community volunteers, a figure that is well below both the Western Australian (15.9%) and national (14.1%) rates.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common here, with 31.9% of people providing this care, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, only 2.5% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below the state rate of 10.7%.
2.5% —
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.9% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.0%
- 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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia (2.9%) and Australia (2.8%).
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Lake Argyle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50809/lake-argyle/topic/community