20.5% ▲ +3.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.8%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pickering Brook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pickering Brook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained a strong feature of Pickering Brook, with a notably high proportion of people giving their time to others. More than one in five residents volunteer, and the rate of unpaid care is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.5% of people giving their time. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 16.9% of people doing so. This includes 27.2% of people caring for children and 22.8% who spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
16.9% ▲ +55.0%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.2% ▼ -19.6%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.9%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.8% ▼ -19.3%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 22.8%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.7%. This is a little below both the Western Australian (2.9%) and national (2.8%) figures.
1.7%
Lower than 62% 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 Pickering Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51237/pickering-brook/topic/community