17.6% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mitchell Plateau · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mitchell Plateau
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Mitchell Plateau has remained steady over the years, with 17.6% of people volunteering. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. However, very few residents engage in unpaid care or housework compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.6% of people here volunteer, which is a little above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and well above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here. Only 5.4% of people provide unpaid childcare or do 15 or more hours of housework, and no one is recorded as providing other unpaid care, which is far below both state and national figures.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
5.4% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.4% —
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.4%
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, a figure that is a little below the Western Australian and national averages.
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 Mitchell Plateau [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50971/mitchell-plateau/topic/community