21.5% ▼ -33.9%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 29.1%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dungowan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dungowan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Dungowan volunteer their time, making it a place where community involvement is much more common than in most other areas. This spirit of contribution is seen across unpaid childcare, housework, and a strong history of military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.5% of people helping out, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a regular part of life, as 26.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the 20.7% national average. This is alongside 27.6% of people caring for children unpaid, while 10.6% provide other forms of unpaid care, which is a little below the national figure.
10.6% ▼ -24.8%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.6% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 35.8%
- 2021: 27.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.3% ▼ -22.7%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 26.3%
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.
Military service is much more common in Dungowan than in most areas, with 4.4% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
4.4%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality 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 Dungowan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11324/dungowan/topic/community