10.1% ▼ -13.1%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 10.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pennington · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pennington
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 7 percentage points separates Pennington from the rest of South Australia in terms of volunteering. Only 10.1% of people here volunteer their time, which is well below the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 10.1% of residents volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas and well below the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is less common here than in other areas, with only 16.1% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework and 22.2% caring for children unpaid, both well below state levels.
11.5% ▼ -0.6%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.2% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.1% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 16.1%
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 2.1% of people in Pennington have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Pennington [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41136/pennington/topic/community