12.0% ▼ -46.3%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Nowergup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Nowergup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Nowergup involves a fair amount of home-based work, though few residents volunteer. Only 12% of people here do volunteer work, which is much lower than most other areas. This means community support activities are less common than in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%, with only 12% of Nowergup residents giving their time to others.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 7.8% of people provide unpaid care—much lower than most areas—a high 24.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure well above the national average.
7.8% ▲ +0.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.6% ▼ -12.7%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.6% ▲ +44.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 24.6%
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 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and the rest of the country.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Nowergup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51162/nowergup/topic/community