13.5% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wongamine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wongamine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care in Wongamine than in other parts of the country, with 0% of residents doing so. This highlights a local trend of very low participation in unpaid care and housework compared to the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.5% of residents volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 10.8% of people provide unpaid childcare, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. While 21.6% do 15 or more hours of housework, no one in the area provides unpaid care for others.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.8% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.6% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 21.6%
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 residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Western Australian and national figures of around 2.9% and 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 Wongamine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51631/wongamine/topic/community