16.4% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Colebatch · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Colebatch
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A few standout patterns define community life in Colebatch, where unpaid care is more common than in most similar areas. While 14.5% of people provide unpaid care, very few residents have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.4% of people here volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 14.5% of people providing support. However, those caring for children unpaid are far below the national figure, at just 5.5%.
14.5% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
5.5% —
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
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 the area 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 Colebatch [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40279/colebatch/topic/community