16.6% ▲ +5.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Maida Vale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Maida Vale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Maida Vale sits around the middle of similar areas for most types of community involvement. While volunteering is typical for the region, a notably high proportion of residents provide unpaid care for children. This suggests a community with strong domestic and family support roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.6% of people in Maida Vale volunteer, which is a little above the Australian figure of 14.1% and roughly the same as the Western Australian rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 30.3% of people caring for children—a figure well above the national average. This is seen alongside high levels of housework and general care, with 24% of residents doing 15 or more hours of unpaid home tasks weekly.
13.2% ▲ +20.0%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.0% ▼ -13.6%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 24.0%
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.
Around 3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Maida Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50881/maida-vale/topic/community