21.7% ▼ -1.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tutunup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tutunup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Tutunup provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This is a community where residents contribute heavily through both family support and local volunteering. The area also has a notably high proportion of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.7% of people helping out. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very high at 36.7%, which is far above the Australian average of 26.3%. However, other forms of unpaid care are less common, with only 10.0% of people providing unpaid care, a little below the national figure.
10.0% ▼ -11.2%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.7% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.7% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 21.7%
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 much higher share of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to similar areas, with 4.8% of residents having served. This is a little above the 2.8% typical across Australia.
4.8%
Higher than 78% 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 Tutunup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51474/tutunup/topic/community