23.0% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 23.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Parkerville · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Parkerville
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure, 23% of people in Parkerville volunteer their time. This high level of community involvement is matched by a strong tendency for residents to provide unpaid care and support within their homes.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 23% of residents helping out. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and 14.1% for the rest of the country.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is frequent in this area, where 32.9% of people care for children unpaid, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. This trend extends to other home duties, with 25.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework and 13.9% providing some form of unpaid care.
13.9% ▲ +42.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.9% ▼ -8.8%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.8% ▼ -7.4%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 25.8%
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 2.9% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.9%
Higher 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 Parkerville [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51205/parkerville/topic/community