14.5% ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.1%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brompton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brompton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 9.3% of people in Brompton provide unpaid care, which is much lower than in most other areas. This community has very low rates of unpaid domestic work and childcare compared to the rest of the state. Most residents do not spend significant time on unpaid care roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of residents volunteer, a figure that is a little below the South Australian average of 17.0% and roughly the same as the national rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few people here perform unpaid care tasks, with only 16.5% caring for children and 12.3% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly. Both figures are well below the national and state averages.
9.3% ▲ +8.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.5% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.3% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 12.3%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.8% of the population, which is about the same as the figures for South Australia and Australia.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Brompton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40165/brompton/topic/community