23.1% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Totness · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Totness
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of people in Totness volunteer, making the area much more active in community work than most other places. While volunteering is common, other forms of unpaid work and service vary across the neighborhood.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 23.1% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well above the 17.0% seen in South Australia and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 16.7% of people doing so. In contrast, those caring for children unpaid are well below the national figure at 23.1%.
16.7% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% —
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.8% —
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 21.8%
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 figure 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 Totness [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41469/totness/topic/community