14.5% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mitchell Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mitchell Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Mitchell Park has remained steady, with 14.5% of people volunteering. This is about the same as the national figure. Most residents follow typical patterns for the state when it comes to unpaid care and defence service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas and a little below the South Australian rate of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 13.0% of people providing this support, which is a little above the national figure. However, the 17.8% of people doing over 15 hours of unpaid housework is much lower than most areas.
13.0% ▲ +9.2%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.7% ▲ +0.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 23.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.8% ▼ -12.6%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 17.8%
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 around the middle for its level, with 2.4% of residents having served, which is about the same as the South Australian and national figures.
2.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Mitchell Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40893/mitchell-park/topic/community