31.0% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 57.1%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brimbago · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brimbago
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than half of the people in Brimbago provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This reflects a community with very high levels of unpaid care and a strong culture of volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 31.0% of people helping out. This is far above the 17.0% seen across South Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a major part of local life; 57.1% of people care for children, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. While 19.0% of residents provide general unpaid care—well above the national average—the proportion doing 15 or more hours of housework is a little below the national figure at 19.0%.
19.0% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
57.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 52.4%
- 2021: 57.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 19.0%
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.
No one in Brimbago has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the South Australian figure of 3.2%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Brimbago [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40161/brimbago/topic/community