29.3% ▼ -15.1%
Higher than 89% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 29.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lower Eyre Peninsula · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Lower Eyre Peninsula
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people pitch in for their community in Lower Eyre Peninsula than in the rest of the country. Roughly 29% of residents volunteer, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This spirit of helping out extends to the home, where unpaid care and housework are much more common than usual.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 30% of people here volunteer, a figure far above the South Australian rate of 17%. While this is much higher than most other areas, the proportion of volunteers has fallen by 5.2 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 30.1% of people caring for children and 27.8% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above national figures. However, the 11.7% who provide other types of unpaid care is about the same as the Australian average.
11.7% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 57% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.1% ▼ -7.6%
Higher than 86% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 32.6%
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% ▼ -7.5%
Higher than 95% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 27.8%
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% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the 3.2% seen across South Australia and the national figure of 2.8%.
3.0%
Lower than 51% of council (lga) 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 Lower Eyre Peninsula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA43710/lower-eyre-peninsula/topic/community