13.3% ▲ +8.7%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pearsall · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pearsall
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Pearsall provide unpaid childcare than in most similar areas. While 35.2% of residents care for children without pay, other forms of community contribution and service are generally lower or average for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas. Only 13.3% of people volunteer, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
An unusually high 35.2% of residents provide unpaid childcare, well above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, those providing other types of unpaid care or doing 15+ hours of housework are much fewer than in most areas.
8.8% ▲ +17.0%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.2% ▲ +6.4%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.1%
- 2016: 33.6%
- 2021: 35.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.5% ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 19.5%
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 around the middle for its level, with 2.1% of people having served. This is about the same as the 2.8% seen across Australia.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Pearsall [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51219/pearsall/topic/community