23.9% ▼ -32.0%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bruce Rock · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Bruce Rock
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in four people in Bruce Rock (L) volunteer, reflecting a strong local commitment to helping others. While this is well above the national figure, the proportion of volunteers has fallen 11 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
At 23.9%, volunteering rates here are much higher than most areas and well above the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 9.2% providing care and 20.9% caring for children unpaid, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
9.2% ▼ -31.6%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 9.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.9% ▲ +0.9%
Lower than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 20.3%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most areas, with 4.2% of people having served in the Defence Force.
4.2%
Higher than 66% 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 Bruce Rock [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL521009/bruce-rock/topic/community