28.6% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wilgena · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wilgena
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people volunteer in Wilgena compared to the rest of the country. While 28.6% of residents give their time to others, the area sees much lower levels of unpaid care and housework than the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 29% of people here volunteer, which is far above the South Australian figure of 17% and the national average of 14.1%. This level of participation is much higher than in most other similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very low here, with only 11.4% of people caring for children unpaid. This is far below the national figure of 26.3%, and no one reported providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework per week.
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.
11.4% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% 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 one in Wilgena has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the South Australian rate of 3.2% and a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Wilgena [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41596/wilgena/topic/community