31.8% ▼ -14.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 37.4%
- 2021: 31.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Burra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Burra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people volunteer in Burra compared to the rest of the country. About 31.8% of the population give their time to community activities, which is more than double the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 31.8% of people helping out, a figure far above the 17.0% seen across South Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the state and national averages at 20.1%. This is a lower rate than most areas, though 23.3% of people still spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework.
10.5% ▼ -4.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.1% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 20.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.3% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 23.3%
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.
About 2.4% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for South Australia and Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Burra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40193/burra/topic/community