21.7% ▼ -25.8%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Narrogin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Narrogin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Narrogin are pitching in as volunteers now than in other parts of the country. About 21.7% of the population gives their time to help others, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are high here, with 21.7% of people helping out. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% average for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common in Narrogin than in most areas. Only 22.1% of people care for children unpaid, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%, and 19% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
10.3% ▲ +8.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.1% ▼ -23.6%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% ▼ -26.4%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
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 2.3% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.3%
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 Narrogin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51093/narrogin/topic/community