18.8% —
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Moorlands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Moorlands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Moorlands has shifted over the last decade, with a particularly high number of people now managing home and family duties. More than half the population provides unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 18.8% of people in Moorlands volunteer, which is a little above the South Australian figure and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Household work is common here, with 52.1% of people caring for children unpaid and 35.4% doing 15 or more hours of housework—both figures far above the national average. In contrast, the 8.3% of people providing other unpaid care is well below the national figure.
8.3% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
52.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 52.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.4% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 35.4%
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.
No one in Moorlands has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the South Australian rate 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 Moorlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40918/moorlands/topic/community