21.3% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Monarto South · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Monarto South
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of volunteering and unpaid work than most similar areas define Monarto South. Over a fifth of the population helps out in the community, and more than 32% provide unpaid childcare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.3% of residents volunteer, which is well above the South Australian figure of 17% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Childcare and housework are common here, with 32.3% caring for children and 31.5% doing over 15 hours of unpaid housework, both far above national figures. However, the 9.4% of people providing other unpaid care is much lower than in most areas.
9.4% ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.3% ▲ +0.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 32.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.5% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 31.5%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.4%, which is about the same as the figures for South Australia and Australia.
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 Monarto South [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40903/monarto-south/topic/community