21.4% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Pleasant · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Pleasant
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figures for volunteering and unpaid care, Mount Pleasant is a place where residents give a lot of their time to others. More than one in five people volunteer here, which is far higher than the typical Australian community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.4% of people in Mount Pleasant volunteer, a figure that is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 30.7% of people caring for children—well above the national figure of 26.3%. This is alongside 13.4% of residents providing some form of unpaid care and 23.5% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
13.4% ▲ +23.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.7% ▲ +19.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.5% ▲ +5.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 23.5%
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 2.8% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Pleasant [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51030/mount-pleasant/topic/community