22.4% ▲ +11.5%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Hawthorn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Hawthorn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people give their time to others in Mount Hawthorn than in most similar areas. This is seen clearly in the high number of volunteers, with 22.4% of residents helping out in their community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 22.4% of people volunteer here, which is well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is common, as 36.1% of people provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the Australian average of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 13.3% provide other unpaid care, which is a little above the national rate, while 21.0% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
13.3% ▲ +32.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.1% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.0% ▼ -3.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 21.0%
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.
About 2.4% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Mount Hawthorn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51015/mount-hawthorn/topic/community