17.5% ▲ +10.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glenelg · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glenelg
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Glenelg provide unpaid care for children, though this is far less common than in most other areas. While community volunteering is steady, the area has a notably high proportion of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.5% of residents volunteer, which is similar to the South Australian figure and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much less common here than in most areas; only 18.1% care for children and 16.3% do over 15 hours of housework, both of which are well below the state and national figures. However, 12.6% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as across Australia.
12.6% ▲ +39.5%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 9.7%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.1% ▲ +12.1%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.3% ▲ +25.0%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 16.3%
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.
A higher than usual 4.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.2%
Higher than 74% 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 Glenelg [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40505/glenelg/topic/community