17.7% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gowrie Junction · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gowrie Junction
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Gowrie Junction provide unpaid childcare, marking it as a place with a very high rate of family care. This community shows strong levels of engagement, with many residents contributing their time through volunteering and unpaid work in the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.7% of residents are volunteers, which is well above the national and state figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are common here, as 34.5% of people provide unpaid childcare—well above the 26.3% national average. This trend continues with housework, where 25% of people do 15 or more hours a week, well above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
12.3% ▲ +1.1%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.5% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.5%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 34.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -16.8%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 4.6% of the population, which is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.6%
Higher than 77% 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 Gowrie Junction [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31215/gowrie-junction/topic/community