21.2% ▼ -3.1%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goodwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goodwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Goodwood give their time to volunteering, making it a remarkably active place for community work. This spirit of contribution is reflected in local rates of unpaid care and support that sit above both state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.2% of people helping out. This is well above the 17.0% seen across South Australia and far higher than the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is more frequent than in most areas, as 14.2% provide unpaid care and 28.1% look after children unpaid. However, the 20.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is about the same as the Australian average.
14.2% ▲ +23.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.1% ▲ +10.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 28.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▲ +11.1%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 20.9%
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 2.4% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the 2.8% national figure.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Goodwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40520/goodwood/topic/community