22.0% ▼ -26.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Marama · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Marama
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a fifth of people in Marama volunteer their time, making it a place where community involvement is much higher than the national average. This spirit of helping out is reflected in the high number of residents who provide unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.0% of people helping out. This is well above the South Australian figure of 17.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common than in most areas, with 17.1% of residents doing so. While about 26.8% care for children unpaid, which is typical for Australia, no one reported doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework.
17.1% ▲ +16.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.8% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 26.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
No one in Marama has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the state average of 3.2%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Marama [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40824/marama/topic/community