14.5% ▼ -6.4%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Viveash · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Viveash
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 31% of people in Viveash provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. While the area has a strong rate of unpaid care, it sees fewer volunteers than most similar places. A higher than usual number of residents have also served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 15.2% of residents providing care and 31.1% looking after children, both figures being well above the national average. Meanwhile, 21.1% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is about the same as the figure for Australia.
15.2% ▲ +50.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.1% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 31.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% ▼ -15.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 21.1%
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.
Defence service is more common in Viveash than in most similar areas, with 4.0% of people having served, a little above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
4.0%
Higher than 72% 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 Viveash [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51494/viveash/topic/community