10.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 53.8%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Westwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Westwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained very low in Westwood, where no residents report performing unpaid housework or childcare. Only 10.7% of people here volunteer, which is a much lower rate than most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 10.7% of residents in Westwood volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Western Australian average of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
No one in the area reports doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework or caring for children, which is far below state and national figures. However, 10.7% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the state average.
10.7% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Westwood has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is a little below the Australian average of 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 Westwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51590/westwood/topic/community