23.1% ▼ -28.4%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Torbay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Torbay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Torbay spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This makes it a place with high levels of home-based work and a strong spirit of volunteering. The community is more active in these roles than in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 23.1% of people helping out. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and the Western Australian rate of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far fewer people provide unpaid childcare compared to the state and national figures, 14.6% of residents provide some form of unpaid care. This is higher than most areas, alongside a very high 30.4% of people doing significant unpaid housework.
14.6% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.5%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.2% ▼ -26.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% ▼ -19.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 36.2%
- 2021: 30.4%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 1.6%. This is a little below the national figure of 2.8% and the Western Australian rate of 2.9%.
1.6%
Lower than 63% 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 Torbay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51462/torbay/topic/community