20.5% ▼ -34.2%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Currency Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Currency Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 20% of people in Currency Creek volunteer, a figure well above the national average. This community shows a strong trend of contributing time to others, both through formal volunteering and high levels of unpaid work at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 17.0% seen across South Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many residents handle significant duties at home, with 27.2% doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 24.8% provide unpaid childcare and 12.9% provide other unpaid care, both of which are around the middle for similar areas.
12.9% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -24.9%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.2% ▼ -11.5%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 2.7% of the population have served in the Defence Force, a rate that is about the same as both the state and national figures.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Currency Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40342/currency-creek/topic/community