18.0% ▲ +3.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.5%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Daw Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Daw Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly middle-of-the-road figures define community involvement in Daw Park. While volunteer rates are high compared to the rest of the country, the area sees lower levels of unpaid care and housework than most similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the South Australian figure of 17% and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is common here at 26.6%, which is about the same as the national figure. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework (18.6%) and people providing other unpaid care (11.5%) are both lower than most areas.
11.5% ▲ +1.0%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.6% ▼ -1.5%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 26.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% ▼ -12.5%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 18.6%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 2.9% of the population, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages.
2.9%
Higher than 53% 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 Daw Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40354/daw-park/topic/community