12.2% ▼ -50.4%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pumpenbil · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pumpenbil
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Pumpenbil involves a high amount of home-based support, with 18.8% of people providing unpaid care. This is well above both the state and national figures. While formal volunteering is less common, the community is heavily engaged in unpaid work and caregiving at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.2% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 18.8% of people providing care and 31.0% doing over 15 hours of housework—both figures are far above the national average. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid are much fewer than in most areas, at 17.8%, which is well below the national figure.
18.8% ▲ +41.6%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.8% ▼ -16.7%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.4%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.0% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 31.0%
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.
A higher proportion of people in Pumpenbil have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.3% of residents having served, which is about the same as the state and national figures.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Pumpenbil [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13285/pumpenbil/topic/community