29.4% ▼ -16.2%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 29.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Taplan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Taplan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher rate of volunteering defines Taplan compared to the rest of the country. Nearly 30% of people here volunteer, which is more than double the national figure. This strong spirit of contribution is matched by a very high number of residents who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 29.4% of residents volunteer, a figure that is far above both the South Australian rate of 17.0% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.5% of people provide unpaid childcare—similar to the state and national figures—almost no one here provides other types of unpaid care. Only 8.8% spend 15 or more hours on housework, which is far below the national figure of 20.7%.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% ▲ +29.6%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 46.9%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
8.8% ▼ -59.7%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 40.6%
- 2021: 8.8%
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.
The area has a very high proportion of veterans, with 17.1% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is far above the 3.2% seen across South Australia and the 2.8% national average.
17.1%
Higher 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 Taplan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41422/taplan/topic/community