20.7% ▼ -35.6%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Popanyinning · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Popanyinning
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Popanyinning volunteer, a rate well above the national figure. This is a community with a strong culture of giving back, where residents are far more likely to provide unpaid care or serve in the military than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.7% of residents giving their time, which is well above the Western Australian rate of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare is far below the national figure at 12.3%, providing other types of unpaid care is much more common than in most areas, involving 18.4% of people. Around 22.3% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, which is a little above the state average.
18.4% ▲ +74.7%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.3% ▼ -56.3%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▼ -31.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.7%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 5.5% of the population having served, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
5.5%
Higher than 85% 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 Popanyinning [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51255/popanyinning/topic/community