8.4% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Elizabeth Vale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Elizabeth Vale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Elizabeth Vale has shifted over the last decade, though volunteering remains quite low. Only 8.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 8.4% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 14.6% of residents provide some form of unpaid care—slightly above the national figure—far fewer people here provide unpaid childcare or do 15 or more hours of housework compared to most other areas.
14.6% ▲ +9.7%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.3%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.5% ▼ -1.1%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.6% ▼ -18.7%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.9%
- 2016: 18.8%
- 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.
Defence service is common here, with 2.6% of people having served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for South Australia and Australia.
2.6%
Lower 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 Elizabeth Vale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40404/elizabeth-vale/topic/community