20.5% ▼ -18.6%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Goolwa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Goolwa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High levels of community spirit define Goolwa, where residents are far more likely to volunteer than people in most other similar areas. Roughly one in five people give their time to others, and the town has a notably strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.5% of people helping out. This is well above the South Australian figure of 17.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 14.2% of people providing support, which is a little above the national figure. While 25.6% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, only 13.0% provide unpaid childcare—a rate far below both the state and the nation.
14.2% ▲ +8.7%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.0% ▼ -23.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 25.6%
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.
A strong history of military service is evident in Goolwa. About 6.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is much higher than in most similar areas and well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
6.1%
Higher than 87% 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 Goolwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40521/goolwa/topic/community