14.3% ▼ -32.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Morgantown · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Morgantown
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 20.9% of people in Morgantown provide unpaid childcare, which is well below the national figure. This is a community where involvement in volunteering and unpaid work is generally lower than in most other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates are lower than in most areas, with 14.3% of people pitching in, which is a little below the Western Australian figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than elsewhere; only 17.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, a figure well below the national average. Around 11.6% provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
11.6% ▲ +32.1%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.9% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.2% ▼ -7.7%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.6%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 17.2%
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.
Those who have served in the Defence Force make up 1.8% of the population, which is a little below the rates seen across Australia and Western Australia.
1.8%
Lower than 61% 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 Morgantown [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50997/morgantown/topic/community