12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Talbot West · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Talbot West
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Talbot West is marked by a very high rate of home-based work, with 45.8% of people spending 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This is far above the national figure, though other forms of community and care work are much less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common in Talbot West than in most other areas. Only 12.5% of people volunteer, which is well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 45.8% of residents spend significant time on housework, very few people provide other types of unpaid care. The proportion of people caring for children is far below the national figure, and no one in the area reported providing unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
45.8% —
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.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
No one in Talbot West has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national and state rates 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 Talbot West [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51425/talbot-west/topic/community