44.1% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 45.5%
- 2021: 44.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Scotts Brook · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Scotts Brook
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive 30 percentage point gap separates Scotts Brook from the national average in community spirit. Residents here are far more likely to volunteer and provide unpaid childcare than those in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 44.1% of people helping out. This is far above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very high at 57.6%, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. However, only 5.1% of people provide other types of unpaid care, a rate well below the 11.9% seen across Australia.
5.1% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
57.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 57.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.9%
- 2021: 18.6%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures of around 2.8% to 2.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Scotts Brook [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51335/scotts-brook/topic/community