11.2% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.5%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yanchep · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yanchep
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Yanchep provide unpaid childcare than in the rest of the country. This creates a distinct profile for the area, where high rates of family care are seen alongside lower-than-average levels of community volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.2% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is a major focus here, with 34.2% of people doing this unpaid work—well above the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 21.2% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and 10.3% provide other unpaid care, which is a little below the Australian average.
10.3% ▲ +15.6%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.2% ▲ +8.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 34.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.2% ▼ -14.7%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 21.2%
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.
About 2.5% of the population served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Yanchep [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51667/yanchep/topic/community