24.2% ▼ -13.4%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 24.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Leeman · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Leeman
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering than most similar areas define Leeman, where 24.2% of people give their time to help others. While this is far above the national figure of 14.1%, it has dipped slightly since 2011. Other forms of community and home care are less common here than in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Almost one in four people in Leeman volunteer, which is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia. This figure is far above the national average, though it fell 3.7 percentage points from 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in most areas, with only 7.2% of people providing unpaid care and 20.3% caring for children. The proportion of people doing 15 or more hours of housework also fell since 2011 to 18.6%, a figure slightly below the national average.
7.2% ▼ -49.9%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▲ +9.7%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% ▼ -21.6%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 2.3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than in most similar areas. This is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 82% 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 Leeman [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522041/leeman/topic/community