12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
West Kalgoorlie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in West Kalgoorlie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in West Kalgoorlie engage in unpaid care or volunteering compared to the rest of the country. This lack of community participation is most striking in unpaid care, where figures for housework and caregiving are far below the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.5% of people here 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 care is very rare in West Kalgoorlie, with 0% of people providing general unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework. The 12.5% of people caring for children unpaid is also far below the national figure of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% 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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national and state figures of around 2.8%.
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 West Kalgoorlie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51576/west-kalgoorlie/topic/community