34.3% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Walebing · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Walebing
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering than most similar areas define Walebing. Over a third of the population gives their time to others, creating a community where local involvement is far more common than across the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 34.3% of people here volunteer, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 20% of people providing care—a figure well above the 11.9% national average. This is alongside 28.6% of people caring for children unpaid, which is slightly higher than the Australian figure of 26.3%.
20.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.6% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 20.0%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national rates of around 2.8% to 2.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Walebing [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51503/walebing/topic/community