20.0% ▼ -27.1%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lange · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lange
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One in five people in Lange volunteer, a rate far higher than most similar areas. This community shows a strong tendency toward unpaid service, with a notably high number of former Defence Force members and a volunteering rate well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.0% of people giving their time. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 18.8%, though 25.0% of residents do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Unpaid care for others is 11.8%, about the same as the Australian average.
11.8% ▲ +7.0%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.8% ▼ -5.9%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -23.5%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Defence service is much more common in Lange than in most similar areas, with 5.3% of people having served. This is a little above both the state figure of 2.9% and the national figure of 2.8%.
5.3%
Higher than 83% 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 Lange [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50832/lange/topic/community