13.7% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Waterbank · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Waterbank
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower rates of unpaid care and housework set Waterbank apart from the rest of the state. While 13.7% of people volunteer, which is about the same as the national figure, the community is far less likely to provide unpaid care than other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 13.7% of people helping out. This is a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than in most areas, including only 8.8% of people providing care and 18.6% doing over 15 hours of housework. This is consistent with the fact that people caring for children unpaid is well below the national figure, at 21.6%.
8.8% ▲ +42.8%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -27.8%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% ▲ +2.6%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 Waterbank has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below both 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 Waterbank [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51542/waterbank/topic/community