24.0% ▼ -30.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 24.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Booborowie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Booborowie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 10 percentage points more people volunteer in Booborowie than the national figure. This community is highly active in giving back, with strong rates of volunteering and a significant number of residents providing unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24% of people here volunteer, which is well above the South Australian rate of 17% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 20.6% of people providing care, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%. While 25.1% do 15 or more hours of housework—well above the national 20.7%—the 22.9% who care for children unpaid is well below the national average of 26.3%.
20.6% ▲ +57.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.9% ▼ -7.4%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.1% ▼ -21.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 35.6%
- 2021: 25.1%
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.
A much higher share of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.5% of the population having served, which is a little above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Booborowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40135/booborowie/topic/community