20.6% ▼ -39.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.2%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yallabatharra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yallabatharra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Yallabatharra volunteer, making it a place where community involvement is much more common than across the rest of the country. This spirit of service is reflected in the local population, which also includes a notably high number of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.6% of residents giving their time. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and the Western Australian rate of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Only 13.2% of people provide unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure. While 22.1% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, the 20.6% who care for children unpaid is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
13.2% ▲ +17.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.6% ▲ +8.7%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.1% ▼ -15.4%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 served in the Defence Force make up 4.5% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Yallabatharra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51663/yallabatharra/topic/community