11.5% ▲ +11.9%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Northbridge · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Northbridge
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 9.8% of people in Northbridge provide unpaid child care, a figure far below the national average. This reflects a community with very low levels of unpaid care and domestic work compared to most other areas. Local engagement in volunteering and defence service is also lower than typical for the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 11.5% of residents helping out, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very rare in Northbridge; only 8.0% of people do 15 or more hours of housework and 3.6% provide unpaid care, both of which are well below national levels.
3.6% ▼ -4.3%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.8% ▲ +29.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.0% ▲ +40.0%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 8.0%
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.
Defence service is less common here than in most other areas, with 1.3% of the population having served, which is a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.3%
Lower than 65% 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 Northbridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51159/northbridge/topic/community