13.3% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Salisbury Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Salisbury Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 31.6% of people in Salisbury Heights provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This suggests a community with a high number of families and caregivers. While unpaid care is common here, other forms of community involvement like volunteering are less frequent.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.3% of residents 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.
Beyond childcare, 15.2% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is much higher than most areas. Meanwhile, 21.2% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a rate about the same as the national figure.
15.2% ▲ +18.7%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 15.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.6% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.5%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.2% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 21.2%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most areas, with 3.7% of the population having served in the Defence Force.
3.7%
Higher than 66% 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 Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41291/salisbury-heights/topic/community