41.4% ▲ +0.2%
Higher than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.3%
- 2016: 38.8%
- 2021: 41.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Port Neill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Port Neill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 41% of people in Port Neill volunteer their time, which is a remarkably high figure compared to the rest of the country. This strong level of local involvement stands out as the most defining feature of community life in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 41.4% of residents giving their time. This is far above the South Australian figure of 17% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is more common than in most areas, with 14.7% of people providing support. Meanwhile, those caring for children (24.1%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (20.9%) are both slightly below or about the same as state and national figures.
14.7% ▼ -22.4%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.1% ▲ +92.7%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 24.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -31.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 20.9%
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 residents have served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and a little below the South Australian figure of 3.2%.
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 Port Neill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41205/port-neill/topic/community