15.6% ▼ -40.3%
Lower than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bowden · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Bowden
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few residents in Bowden spend their time on unpaid care, though the area has a remarkably high number of veterans. Only 13.6% of people here provide unpaid child care, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.6% of the community volunteer, a figure that is a little above the Australian average but slightly lower than the South Australian rate of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much less common here than in most areas. Only 12.2% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and just 9.4% provide any form of unpaid care, which is well below the state average.
9.4% ▼ -9.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.6% ▼ -32.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.2% ▼ -44.4%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 12.2%
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.
A striking 6.7% of people in Bowden have served in the Defence Force. This is well above the national figure of 2.8% and much higher than in most other similar areas.
6.7%
Higher than 88% 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 Bowden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40146/bowden/topic/community