22.8% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gumeracha · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gumeracha
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines Gumeracha, where nearly 23% of people volunteer their time. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. Local residents are also more likely than most to put in significant hours of unpaid work at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.8% of people in Gumeracha volunteer, which is higher than most areas and well above the South Australian figure of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid housework is common here, with 26.8% of people doing 15 or more hours a week, a figure well above the national average of 20.7%. Meanwhile, those caring for children (25.8%) or providing other unpaid care (12.6%) are about the same as the state and national levels.
12.6% ▲ +7.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.8% ▼ -6.2%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 26.8%
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.
More people have served in the Defence Force here than in most similar areas. At 3.9%, this is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Gumeracha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40542/gumeracha/topic/community