10.0% ▼ -35.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.6%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pallara · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pallara
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of residents in Pallara provide unpaid childcare than the state or national figures. While 38.7% of people here care for children without pay, other forms of community involvement and service are much lower than usual.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is uncommon here, with only 10.0% of people helping out, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common at 38.7%, far above the Australian figure of 26.3%. However, this is contrasted by a much lower rate of general unpaid care at 7.9%, and a typical housework load of 22.1% for those doing 15 or more hours a week.
7.9% ▼ -19.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.8%
- 2016: 16.6%
- 2021: 7.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.7% ▲ +45.0%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.1% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 22.1%
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 1.1% of the population, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
1.1%
Lower than 67% 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 Pallara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32255/pallara/topic/community