40.5% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 40.2%
- 2016: 41.4%
- 2021: 40.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wunkar · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wunkar
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty percent of people in Wunkar volunteer, a figure that is far above the national average. This level of community involvement is among the highest for similar areas. It suggests a place where residents are deeply active in supporting one another.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 40.5% of residents helping out. This is 26 percentage points higher than the Australian figure and far above the South Australian rate of 17%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 28.6% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is a little above the national average, other forms of care are less common. Only 7.1% provide general unpaid care, a figure well below the national average of 11.9%.
7.1% ▼ -41.5%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.6% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.8%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 19.0%
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. This is well below the South Australian figure of 3.2% and a little below the national average 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 Wunkar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL41660/wunkar/topic/community