21.5% ▼ -14.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.1%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Nairne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Nairne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Nairne provide unpaid childcare, making it a community with very high levels of family and social support. This is a place where residents are far more likely to volunteer and care for others than those in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the South Australian figure of 17.0% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very prevalent, with 33.0% of people looking after children, which is well above the national average of 26.3%. Additionally, 13.7% provide other forms of unpaid care and 24.5% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
13.7% ▲ +21.2%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.0% ▼ -13.0%
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 36.7%
- 2021: 33.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▼ -10.8%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.3% of the population having served.
4.3%
Higher than 74% 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 Nairne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41005/nairne/topic/community