10.8% ▼ -30.8%
Lower than 83% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Katherine · Sub-region (SA3)
Community Participation in Katherine
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have fallen by 4.8 points since 2011 in Katherine, where only 10.8% of people now give their time to others. While community volunteering has dropped, the area has a very high number of people providing unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.8% of people in Katherine volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% figure for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common here, with 35.5% of people providing this care, well above the national figure of 26.3%. Other forms of unpaid work are less frequent, with 10.2% of people providing general unpaid care and 18.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework per week.
10.2% ▼ -0.5%
Lower than 81% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.5% ▲ +1.0%
Higher than 99% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 35.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.8% ▲ +3.4%
Lower than 74% of sub-region (sa3) areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 18.8%
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.
Defence service is common in Katherine, where 6.0% of people have served. This is well above the Australian average of 2.8% and slightly higher than the Northern Territory figure.
6.0%
Higher than 93% of sub-region (sa3) 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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa3/70205/katherine/topic/community