34.5% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.3%
- 2016: 47.5%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Walker · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Walker
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Mount Walker volunteer their time, which is a far higher rate than the national figure. This community shows a strong commitment to unpaid work, particularly in raising children and managing the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 34.5% of people helping out. This is far above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 41.4% of residents provide unpaid childcare and 31.0% do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures far above the national average. In contrast, only 5.2% provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%.
5.2% ▼ -46.8%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 5.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
41.4% ▲ +64.4%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 32.5%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.0% ▲ +7.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 31.0%
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.
No one in Mount Walker has served in the Defence Force, a rate slightly below the 2.8% recorded for Australia.
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 Mount Walker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51037/mount-walker/topic/community