28.0% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Middleton Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Middleton Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of residents in Middleton Beach now volunteer, marking a significant local commitment to community work. This high level of engagement is seen across the area, where people are far more likely to help out in their spare time than those in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 28% of people here volunteer, which is much higher than most areas. This figure is far above the Western Australian rate of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 14.4% of people providing care and 26.1% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above state and national levels. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 22.3%, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
14.4% ▲ +18.4%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.3% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.1% ▼ -11.4%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 26.1%
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 residents than most areas have served in the Defence Force, with 3.4% of the population having served. This is about the same as the Western Australian and national figures.
3.4%
Higher than 63% 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 Middleton Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50946/middleton-beach/topic/community