10.5% ▲ +55.4%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Warmun · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Warmun
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking gap exists between Warmun and the rest of the country regarding unpaid work, where over half the people care for children. While formal volunteering is low, these figures highlight a community heavily focused on family and caregiving roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.5% of people in Warmun volunteer, which is well below the state figure of 15.9%. However, this has risen by 3.7 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is very common here, with 52.6% of people caring for children unpaid—far above the Australian figure of 26.3%. While 28.2% provide some form of unpaid care, the 12.5% who spend 15 or more hours on housework is well below the national figure.
28.2% ▲ +157.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 28.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
52.6% ▲ +5.8%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 49.7%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 52.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.5% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 12.5%
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 rare in Warmun, with only 0.9% of people having served. This is a little below the Western Australian rate of 2.9%.
0.9%
Lower than 94% 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 Warmun [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL522064/warmun/topic/community