13.6% ▼ -27.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.7%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dover Gardens · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dover Gardens
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A smaller share of people volunteer in Dover Gardens compared to the rest of South Australia. While 13.6% of residents give their time to volunteer work, this is well below the state figure of 17.0%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 13.6% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most areas and well below the South Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people in Dover Gardens provide unpaid childcare than in most other areas, with 28.0% doing so. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are much fewer than usual at 19.1%.
12.3% ▼ -1.3%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.0% ▲ +7.0%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 28.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.1% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 3.2% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for both South Australia and the rest of the country.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Dover Gardens [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40371/dover-gardens/topic/community