9.8% ▼ -29.3%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Duck Ponds · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Duck Ponds
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 9.8% of people volunteer their time in Duck Ponds, which is well below the national figure. This is an area where very few residents provide unpaid care or support to others compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower than in most areas, with only 9.8% of people helping out, far below the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare here; only 5.7% of people provide this support, which is well below the Australian figure. Similarly, the number of people caring for children unpaid (10.9%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (10.6%) are among the lowest levels recorded.
5.7% ▲ +6.7%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.9% ▼ -33.2%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 7.0%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
10.6% ▼ -29.8%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 10.6%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most other areas and well below the state average 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 Duck Ponds [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40375/duck-ponds/topic/community