4.9% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Warakurna · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Warakurna
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than twice as many people provide unpaid care in Warakurna compared to the national figure. This high level of family support stands out in a community where other forms of formal volunteering are much less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 4.9% of people volunteer here, which is far below the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and among the lowest rates for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 25.2% of people providing it and 56.6% caring for children—both figures are far above the national averages. Meanwhile, 21.0% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework, which is about the same as the rest of the country.
25.2% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
56.6% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.0% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
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 community has served in the Defence Force, a result that is a little below the state and national figures.
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 Warakurna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51528/warakurna/topic/community