32.6% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.3%
- 2021: 32.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Perup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Perup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Perup give their time to volunteering, making it a place where community help is far more common than in most areas. This spirit of service is a key part of daily life here, though few residents have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common in Perup, with 32.6% of residents helping out. This is far above the state figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A large 31.9% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is far above the Australian figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 13.0% provide unpaid care, and 23.9% care for children unpaid, which is well below the Western Australian rate of 28.5%.
13.0% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.9% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.9% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.2%
- 2021: 31.9%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures of around 2.8% to 2.9%.
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 Perup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51232/perup/topic/community