20.9% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Quairading · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Quairading
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher proportion of people volunteer in Quairading than in most other similar areas. Around 21% of residents give their time to help others, which is well above the national figure of 14%. This suggests a strong culture of local contribution within the town.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.9% of residents are volunteers, a figure that is well above both the Western Australian average of 15.9% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 12.2% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%. This trend is mirrored in housework, where the 18.7% of people doing 15 or more hours a week is much lower than in most other areas.
11.1% ▼ -2.7%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.2% ▼ -32.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.7% ▼ -39.4%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 18.7%
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.
Roughly 3.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Quairading [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51268/quairading/topic/community