6.1% ▼ -34.8%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Edinburgh · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Edinburgh
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost every resident in Edinburgh has served in the Defence Force, though other forms of community involvement are very low. This is one of the most military-connected areas in the country, with 95.2% of people having served, contrasting with very low rates of volunteering and unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.1% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare in Edinburgh; for example, only 0.8% of people care for children unpaid, which is far below the South Australian figure of 26.5%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.8% ▼ -61.3%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.7% ▲ +19.1%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 3.7%
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.
Defence service is exceptionally common here, with 95.2% of people having served, a figure far above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
95.2%
Higher 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 Edinburgh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40392/edinburgh/topic/community