8.9% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Seaford Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Seaford Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 37% of people in Seaford Heights provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. While this area has a very high number of people caring for children, other forms of community involvement and unpaid care are much lower than usual.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.9% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the South Australian average of 17% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for other people is much lower than most areas at 5.9%, and slightly fewer people do 15 or more hours of housework compared to the rest of the state.
5.9% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 37.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 19.0%
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 2.3% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for South Australia and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Seaford Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41316/seaford-heights/topic/community