0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
McBean Pound · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in McBean Pound
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few people in McBean Pound engage in formal volunteering or childcare, but a large number handle significant home duties. This is a sparsely populated area where daily life involves more unpaid housework than in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
No one in the area reported volunteering, which is far below the South Australian figure of 17.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While no one provides unpaid childcare, 13.6% of people provide unpaid care—a little above the national figure. This is consistent with a high rate of housework, as 31.8% spend 15 or more hours a week on these tasks, far above the 20.7% across Australia.
13.6% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.8% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 McBean Pound [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40847/mcbean-pound/topic/community