13.2% ▲ +103.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pardoo · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pardoo
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Pardoo is marked by a very strong connection to military service, with 10.3% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is far higher than the national figure. In contrast, rates of volunteering and unpaid care are generally lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.2% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is uncommon in Pardoo; just 7.9% of people provide unpaid care, and only 15.8% look after children unpaid, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
7.9% ▲ +182.1%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.8% ▲ +17.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
7.9% ▲ +88.5%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 7.9%
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.
Military experience is very common here, with 10.3% of residents having served in the Defence Force, a figure well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
10.3%
Higher than 96% 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 Pardoo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51203/pardoo/topic/community