24.3% ▼ -8.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Torrens Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Torrens Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people volunteer in Torrens Park than in the rest of the country. Nearly one in four residents give their time to others, making this community notably more active in volunteering than most Australian suburbs.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 24.3% of people here volunteer, which is well above the South Australian figure of 17.0% and far above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is very common here, with 30.8% of people providing unpaid childcare, which is well above both state and national figures. Meanwhile, 13.6% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, a result that is about the same as the South Australian average.
13.6% ▼ -4.6%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% ▲ +14.1%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.0%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 21.4%
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 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the rates seen across Australia and South Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Torrens Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41464/torrens-park/topic/community