24.8% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Millswood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Millswood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Millswood volunteer than in most other areas. Roughly one quarter of residents give their time to others, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This strong spirit of contribution is seen across volunteering and unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.8% of people helping out. This is far above the national figure of 14.1% and well above South Australia's 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much more common than in most areas. About 31.2% of people care for children unpaid, while 15.3% provide other types of unpaid care, both of which are well above national figures.
15.3% ▲ +1.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.2% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 31.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
About 2.9% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the 2.8% national figure and the 3.2% seen across South Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 54% 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 Millswood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40879/millswood/topic/community