13.2% ▼ -6.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Clifton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Clifton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people do unpaid care and housework in Lake Clifton than in most other similar areas. While volunteering is less common here than in other parts of the state, there is a notably strong history of military service. This creates a community profile defined by home-based responsibilities and past service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.2% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than in most areas and a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Housework and caring roles are very common here, with 30.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the 20.7% national figure. Similarly, the 15.1% of people providing unpaid care is much higher than in most other areas.
15.1% ▲ +23.2%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 10.1%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.9% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.1% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.7%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 30.1%
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 community has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 4.3%, this is a little above both the state figure of 2.9% and the national figure of 2.8%.
4.3%
Higher than 75% 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 Clifton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50815/lake-clifton/topic/community