18.5% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 41.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Port Kenny · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Port Kenny
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people spend 15 or more hours on housework each week in Port Kenny than in most other areas. This community is active, with 18.5% of residents volunteering, a figure well above the national average. However, very few people here are tasked with the unpaid care of children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.5% of people pitching in, which is a little above the South Australian figure and well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 13.0% of people provide unpaid care, which is about the same as the state average, very few (5.6%) look after children unpaid. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%, though 31.5% of residents still spend 15 or more hours a week on housework.
13.0% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
5.6% —
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.5% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.4%
- 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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is well below the South Australian 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 Port Kenny [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41200/port-kenny/topic/community