22.4% ▲ +0.5%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Barker · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Mount Barker
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer here than in most similar areas, making Mount Barker (WA) a place where 22.4% of residents give their time to help others. This high level of community spirit has remained steady since 2011. Other forms of unpaid work, such as caring for children, have become less common over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 22.4% of people helping out. This is well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While those caring for children unpaid have fallen to 20.3% since 2011, other unpaid work has increased. More people are providing general unpaid care and doing 15 or more hours of housework, with both figures now above the state and national levels.
12.9% ▲ +180.2%
Lower than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.6%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▼ -41.3%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.6%
- 2016: 24.2%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▲ +20.9%
Higher than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
About 3.0% of the population served in the Defence Force, which is lower than in most similar areas and about the same as the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
3.0%
Lower than 64% 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 Mount Barker [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL515025/mount-barker/topic/community