20.5% ▼ -5.0%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Black Forest · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Black Forest
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A well above average share of residents volunteer in Black Forest, with 20.5% of the population giving their time to others. This level of community involvement is significantly higher than both the South Australian and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people volunteer here, which is well above the 17.0% seen across South Australia and 6.3 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children involves 26.8% of residents, a figure about the same as the national average. Meanwhile, 13.4% of people provide some form of unpaid care, while 20.2% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is lower than most similar areas.
13.4% ▲ +5.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.8% ▲ +4.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.6%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▲ +0.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 20.2%
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 the area, with 2.9% of people having served, a figure that is about the same as the national average of 2.8%.
2.9%
Higher than 53% 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 Black Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40111/black-forest/topic/community