13.2% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Whitby · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Whitby
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Whitby has shifted over time, with a very high number of parents now providing unpaid child care. Roughly 40.4% of residents provide unpaid care for children, which is far above both the state and national figures. However, other forms of volunteering and service are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.2% of people in Whitby volunteer, which is much lower than in most similar areas and a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 40.4% of residents provide unpaid child care—among the highest rates for this level—only 7.6% provide other unpaid care, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%. Around 21.1% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly.
7.6% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 7.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
40.4% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 39.9%
- 2021: 40.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.1% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 21.1%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 1.5% of the population, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the state average of 2.9%.
1.5%
Lower than 63% 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 Whitby [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51592/whitby/topic/community