54.7% ▲ +50.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.3%
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 54.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Narrogin Valley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Narrogin Valley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than half of the people in Narrogin Valley volunteer, with 54.7% giving their time to others. This is far above the national figure and among the highest rates for any similar area. Community involvement is a defining feature of the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, at 54.7%. This is far above the Western Australia figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 14.0% of people providing support, which is well above the state average. While few people care for children unpaid, 29.1% of residents do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the national average.
14.0% ▲ +70.1%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.6% ▼ -50.6%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.6%
- 2016: 38.9%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.1% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 29.1%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the state and national figures, which both sit around 2.8% or 2.9%.
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 Narrogin Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51094/narrogin-valley/topic/community