20.6% ▼ -4.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
North Lake · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in North Lake
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering defines daily life in North Lake, where 20.6% of people give their time to help others. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%, marking the area as a place where community involvement is much more common than in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
More than one in five residents volunteer, a rate that is well above both the Western Australian (15.9%) and Australian (14.1%) figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 28.6% of people caring for children and 23.9% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework. Both figures are well above the national average.
13.1% ▲ +22.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.6% ▼ -8.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▲ +8.1%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 23.9%
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 2.1% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 North Lake [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51144/north-lake/topic/community