24.6% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.0%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wubin · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wubin
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Wubin volunteer their time, which is far above the national figure. This strong spirit of helping out defines daily life in the area, even though fewer residents provide unpaid care for children compared to most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.6% of residents giving their time. This is much higher than most similar areas and well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 18.5% of people provide unpaid childcare—far below the national figure of 26.3%—many more handle heavy housework. About 30.8% do 15 or more hours of unpaid home tasks weekly, which is far above the Australian average.
9.2% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.5% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.8% —
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 30.8%
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 Wubin has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures of around 2.8% to 2.9%.
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 Wubin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51650/wubin/topic/community