33.3% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sandalwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sandalwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher rate of volunteering than most similar areas defines Sandalwood, where one in three people give their time to others. This strong local involvement stands out against a very low number of people providing unpaid childcare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 33.3% of residents volunteer, a figure far above the 17% seen in South Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 14.8% of people provide unpaid childcare—far below the national figure of 26.3%—a higher than usual 27.8% spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework.
11.1% —
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
14.8% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.8% —
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 27.8%
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, which 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 Sandalwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41300/sandalwood/topic/community