14.4% ▼ -11.3%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.3%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Shoalwater · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Shoalwater
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strikingly high number of veterans live in Shoalwater, where 6.7% of residents have served in the Defence Force. While military service is common, other forms of community contribution are less frequent than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.4% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the national figure of 26.3%, with only 22.6% of residents doing so. Other forms of unpaid work, such as housework or general care, are about the same as the state and national averages.
11.2% ▲ +8.3%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.6% ▼ -6.5%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 22.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.0% ▼ -7.9%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 21.0%
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 here, with 6.7% of the population having served. This is well above the national figure of 2.8% and much higher than most similar areas.
6.7%
Higher than 88% 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 Shoalwater [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51348/shoalwater/topic/community