40.0% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rossmore · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rossmore
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 40% of people in Rossmore volunteer their time, making it one of the most active areas for community work. This spirit of helping out is paired with a very high rate of unpaid care and housework within the local area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 40% of residents pitching in. This is far above the 15.9% seen in Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While no one here is unpaidly caring for children, a quarter of the population provides some form of unpaid care. This is far above the state and national figures, and 50% of people spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
25.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
50.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Rossmore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51311/rossmore/topic/community