60.6% ▲ +40.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 60.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pallinup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pallinup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained a defining feature of Pallinup, where 60.6% of people volunteer. This rate is far above the national figure and among the highest for similar areas. Residents are also much more likely to provide unpaid care and housework than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is incredibly common in Pallinup, with 60.6% of residents helping out. This is far above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and 14.1% for the whole country.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 18.2% of people providing care and 30.3% doing over 15 hours of housework a week. Both figures are well above the national average, while 28.8% of residents provide unpaid childcare.
18.2% ▲ +114.5%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.8% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 28.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.3% ▲ +6.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.4%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 30.3%
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 Pallinup has served in the Defence Force. This is a little below the 2.9% reported for Western Australia and the 2.8% national figure.
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 Pallinup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51194/pallinup/topic/community