2.3% ▼ -45.5%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 2.8%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Torndirrup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Torndirrup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 2.3% of people volunteer their time, making Torndirrup an area where community participation is very low. Residents here are far less likely to engage in unpaid care or volunteer work than people in the rest of the state and country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest in the region at 2.3%, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few residents perform unpaid work, with only 2.3% providing unpaid care and 5% doing over 15 hours of housework. Both figures are far below the state and national averages.
2.3% ▲ +173.4%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
3.9% ▲ +13.3%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.0% ▲ +7.9%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 5.0%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 0.8%, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.8%
Lower than 69% 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 Torndirrup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51463/torndirrup/topic/community