29.8% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 43.4%
- 2021: 29.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wickepin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wickepin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 30% of people in Wickepin volunteer, a figure that is far above the national average. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time than those in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 29.8% of residents helping out. This is 14 percentage points higher than the Western Australian figure and 16 points above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is frequent, with 13.5% of people providing care and 27.3% looking after children. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly sit at 23.9%, which is well above both the state and national figures.
13.5% ▼ -15.5%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% ▲ +17.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.9% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 35.0%
- 2021: 23.9%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force. At 3.8%, this is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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 Wickepin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51600/wickepin/topic/community