16.8% ▼ -38.6%
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Harvey · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Harvey
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A drop of 11 percentage points in volunteering since 2011 is the most notable shift in community life for Harvey. While 16.8% of people still volunteer, the area has seen a significant decline in local unpaid work over the last decade. Most other forms of community contribution remain steady compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.8% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this is a sharp fall from 2011, when 27.4% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is 24.2%, which is well below the Western Australian figure. Meanwhile, 20.9% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
11.5% ▲ +34.6%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.5%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.2% ▼ -7.1%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -22.6%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.1%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 20.9%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 2.8%, which is lower than most similar areas but about the same as the state and national figures.
2.8%
Lower than 70% of urban centre 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 Harvey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515015/harvey/topic/community