17.7% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Magill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Magill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Magill provide unpaid childcare, which is the most common form of community contribution in the area. The suburb shows a strong leaning toward helping others, with volunteering rates well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.7% of residents volunteer their time, which is around the middle for similar areas and well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common here, with 27.4% of people providing this care, a figure higher than most areas. Meanwhile, 12.7% provide other unpaid care and 20.5% do more than 15 hours of housework a week, both of which are about the same as the state and national figures.
12.7% ▲ +6.3%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.4% ▲ +6.5%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 27.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.5% ▼ -0.1%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 20.5%
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 less common in Magill than in most other areas, with 2.0% of the population having served, which is a little below the South Australian rate of 3.2%.
2.0%
Lower than 59% 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 Magill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40806/magill/topic/community