9.3% ▼ -22.5%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Salisbury · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Salisbury
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Salisbury than in other parts of the state. Only 9.3% of residents give their time to volunteering, which is well below the South Australian figure of 17.0%. This gap defines a community where participation in unpaid work and volunteering is generally lower than across the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 9.3% of people in Salisbury volunteer, a figure that is much lower than most 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, with only 17.7% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well below the national figure of 20.7%. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (23.1%) are well below the Australian average of 26.3%, though the share of people providing general unpaid care is about the same as the rest of the country.
12.8% ▼ -0.1%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% ▼ -6.4%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.7% ▼ -16.5%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 17.7%
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 2.5% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the 2.8% seen across Australia.
2.5%
Lower than 52% 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 Salisbury [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41288/salisbury/topic/community