12.1% ▲ +7.7%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tapping · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tapping
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high proportion of residents in Tapping provide unpaid childcare, reflecting a shift in the area's community needs since 2011. While 36.8% of people here care for children without pay, other forms of community involvement like volunteering remain quite low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.1% of people in Tapping volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is very common here, with 36.8% of people doing so unpaid, far above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework is much lower than in most other areas.
9.1% ▲ +45.3%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.8% ▼ -14.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.7%
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 36.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.5% ▼ -14.4%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
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.
About 2.7% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages.
2.7%
Higher than 50% 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 Tapping [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51435/tapping/topic/community