12.8% ▼ -43.3%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wandi · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wandi
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap exists between Wandi and the rest of the country when it comes to child care. While 41.1% of people here provide unpaid care for children—a figure far above the national average—this high level of family support contrasts with a lower rate of community volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.8% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very common here, with 41.1% of people providing this support, which is far above the national 26.3%. However, other forms of unpaid care are less common, with only 8.3% of residents providing general unpaid care—well below the Australian figure of 11.9%.
8.3% ▼ -33.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
41.1% ▲ +37.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 41.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 22.3%
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.
About 2.3% of people in Wandi have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Wandi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51519/wandi/topic/community