40.7% ▲ +24.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 44.9%
- 2021: 40.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Arthur River · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Arthur River
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 40% of people in Arthur River volunteer, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement is seen alongside a strong presence of unpaid housework and childcare within the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 40.7% of people helping out, which is far above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid domestic work is high, with 38.9% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework and 33.3% caring for children. This contrasts with unpaid care for others, which is at 0.0% and far below the national figure.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% ▲ +4.2%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 23.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
38.9% ▲ +20.3%
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.3%
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 38.9%
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 a little below the Australian 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 Arthur River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50030/arthur-river/topic/community