17.4% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
West Range · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in West Range
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid care in West Range than in other parts of the state. While 17.4% of residents volunteer—a figure well above the national average—the area has very low rates of unpaid caregiving and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.4% of people here volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and slightly higher than the South Australian figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care, far below the national figure of 11.9%. Similarly, the shares of people doing unpaid housework (17.4%) or caring for children (21.7%) are both well below state and national levels.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.7% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.4% —
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
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 residents in West Range have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and 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 West Range [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41570/west-range/topic/community