9.0% ▼ -3.6%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wattleup · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wattleup
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Wattleup volunteer their time, with only 9.0% of residents doing so. This is well below the national figure and is the most striking feature of the area's community involvement.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.0% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 14.9% of residents provide unpaid care—a figure well above the state average—fewer people do unpaid housework or child care compared to the national average.
14.9% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.4% ▼ -12.2%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.7%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 24.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.9% ▼ -30.2%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 16.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.0% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.0%
Lower than 67% 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 Wattleup [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51550/wattleup/topic/community