15.5% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yokine · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yokine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Yokine has remained steady over the last decade, with a small but consistent share of residents contributing to the area. Roughly 15.5% of people volunteer their time, which is a little above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.5% of residents volunteer, a rate that is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the Western Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in other parts of the state, with only 16.7% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework a week. This is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
10.8% ▲ +15.6%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.7% ▲ +11.4%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.2%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.7% ▼ -4.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 16.7%
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.
Around 2.2% of the community have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both Western Australia and Australia.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Yokine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51688/yokine/topic/community