27.3% —
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mills Lake · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mills Lake
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a quarter of residents in Mills Lake volunteer their time, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement is paired with a strong tendency toward unpaid care and housework within the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 27.3% of people helping out. This is much higher than most similar areas and far above the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 15.2% of people provide unpaid childcare—which is far below the national figure—unpaid care is otherwise common. About 18.2% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, and 36.4% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, a rate far above the state and national averages.
18.2% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.2% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
36.4% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 36.4%
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 figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
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 Mills Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50954/mills-lake/topic/community