11.6% ▲ +30.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Piara Waters · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Piara Waters
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 46.1% of people in Piara Waters provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This highlights a community heavily focused on raising families, though other forms of community contribution are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.6% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While nearly half the population cares for children unpaid, only 7.5% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%. Around 21.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, about the same as the Australian average.
7.5% ▲ +5.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
46.1% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 46.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▲ +13.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 0.9% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the 2.8% national figure.
0.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Piara Waters [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51234/piara-waters/topic/community