23.6% ▼ -10.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Blackwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Blackwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Blackwood give their time to volunteering, making it a highly active community. This spirit of helping out is seen in both formal volunteer work and the high number of residents providing unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 23.6% of people helping out. This is well above the South Australian figure of 17.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common in Blackwood, with 15.6% of people providing care and 30.5% looking after children. Both figures are well above the national and state averages, and 24.7% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
15.6% ▲ +11.6%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.4%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.7% ▼ -6.5%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 24.7%
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 share of residents than in most similar areas have served in the Defence Force, with 3.4% of the population having this experience.
3.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Blackwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40119/blackwood/topic/community