14.1% ▲ +158.9%
Lower than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rottnest Island · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Rottnest Island
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few people provide unpaid care in Rottnest Island (L), where the percentage of people doing housework for 15 or more hours a week is among the lowest in the country. This reflects a unique local environment where traditional home-based care and domestic work are far less common than in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has grown significantly since 2011, with 14.1% of residents now giving their time. This figure is about the same as the national average and just a little below the Western Australian rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here; only 6.7% of people provide care, which is well below the national figure. This is consistent with the fact that those caring for children unpaid (14.8%) and those doing heavy housework (4.7%) are both far below state and national levels.
6.7% ▲ +56.6%
Lower than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.8% ▲ +31.8%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 42.5%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
4.7% ▼ -37.3%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 4.7%
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.
Defence service is more common on the island than in most other areas, with 3.9% of people having served in the Defence Force, a little above both the state and national figures.
3.9%
Higher than 60% 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 Rottnest Island [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522057/rottnest-island/topic/community