22.2% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.9%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Latham · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Latham
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Latham volunteer their time, which is a much higher rate than seen across the state. This strong community spirit stands out as a key feature of the area, while other forms of unpaid care and service are far less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.2% of residents are volunteers, a figure that is well above the 15.9% seen in Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is uncommon here; only 8.9% of people do 15 or more hours of housework and nobody is recorded as caring for children unpaid, both of which are far below state and national levels. Around 11.1% provide other unpaid care, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
11.1% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.9% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 44.2%
- 2021: 8.9%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the 2.9% recorded for Western Australia and the 2.8% national figure.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Latham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50834/latham/topic/community