16.2% ▼ -12.3%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 17.8%
- 2021: 16.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Hillier · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Hillier
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of Defence service and unpaid care set Hillier apart from the rest of the state. While 14.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is more than the national figure, the area also has a notably high proportion of veterans.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.2% of people in Hillier volunteer. This is roughly the same as the South Australian figure of 17.0% and a little above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 14.5% of people providing care, though only 16.8% care for children, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, 24.9% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework a week, a rate well above the Australian figure.
14.5% ▲ +36.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.8% ▲ +10.1%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.9% ▼ -17.1%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 24.9%
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.
Defence service is much more common in Hillier than in most areas. About 5.6% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above both the state (3.2%) and national (2.8%) figures.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Hillier [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40593/hillier/topic/community