39.7% ▲ +66.5%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 43.9%
- 2021: 39.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Brown Hill Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Brown Hill Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 40% of people in Brown Hill Creek volunteer, a figure that is far above the national average. This high level of community involvement defines the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time than people in most other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 39.7% of residents helping out. This is far above the 17% seen in South Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25% of people provide unpaid care—far above the national figure—very few look after children (14.7%) or spend 15 or more hours a week on housework (4.4%).
25.0% ▲ +83.3%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 19.5%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.7% ▼ -51.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
4.4% ▼ -84.8%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 4.4%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the 3.2% recorded for South Australia.
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 Brown Hill Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40170/brown-hill-creek/topic/community