13.8% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rawlinna · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rawlinna
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 10% of people in Rawlinna have served in the Defence Force, a figure well above the national average. While military service is common, other forms of community involvement and unpaid care are much lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of residents are volunteers, which is a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and roughly the same as the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very low here, with no one providing unpaid care for others and only 10.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework, which is far below the national figure of 20.7%. Those caring for children unpaid sit at 24.1%, well below the state average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.1% —
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
10.3% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 10.3%
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.
Defence service is very common in Rawlinna, with 10% of people having served. This is well above both the Western Australian figure of 2.9% and the Australian average of 2.8%.
10.0%
Higher than 96% 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 Rawlinna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51283/rawlinna/topic/community