13.0% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mindarie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mindarie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a quarter of residents in Mindarie provide unpaid childcare, making it the most common form of community contribution here. While child care is typical for the area, other forms of volunteering and unpaid work are notably less common than in most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.0% of people in Mindarie volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 26.4% of residents provide unpaid childcare, a figure about the same as the national average. However, people providing other types of unpaid care or doing over 15 hours of housework are much fewer here than in most similar areas.
9.5% ▲ +27.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.4% ▼ -22.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.3%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 26.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.7% ▼ -13.9%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 19.7%
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 around the middle for its level, with 2.6% of the population having served, which is about the same as the 2.8% seen across Australia.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Mindarie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50960/mindarie/topic/community