13.8% —
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Petherick · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Petherick
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in Petherick provide unpaid care, with 0% of residents doing housework or caring for others. This sparse level of community and home support is much lower than both state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas and well below the South Australian figure of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is rare in Petherick, where only 10.3% of people care for children unpaid, a figure far below the national average of 26.3%. No one reported spending 15 or more hours on housework or providing other unpaid care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.3% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Petherick has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the state average 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 Petherick [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41146/petherick/topic/community