14.3% ▼ -57.5%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Whitwarta · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Whitwarta
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people perform unpaid work in Whitwarta than in most similar areas. Nearly half the population cares for children without pay, a figure that stands out significantly against the rest of the state and country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is a little below the South Australian figure at 14.3%, though this is about the same as the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 48.6% of people caring for children and 37.1% doing at least 15 hours of housework weekly, both far above the national figures. However, 11.4% of people provide other unpaid care, which is a little below the state average.
11.4% ▲ +4.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.9%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
48.6% ▲ +52.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.9%
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 48.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
37.1% ▲ +38.1%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 16.2%
- 2021: 37.1%
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, a rate that 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 Whitwarta [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41584/whitwarta/topic/community