28.9% —
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 28.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Burnside · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Burnside
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 29% of residents in Burnside volunteer their time, making it a place where people are far more active in their community than in most other areas. This strong spirit of helping out is paired with a high rate of unpaid home and family work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.9% of people giving their time. This is far above the state figure of 15.9% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Daily life involves a lot of unpaid work, as 36% of people care for children and 27.2% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, both figures being well above the national average. However, the 11.3% who provide other unpaid care is about the same as the rest of Australia.
11.3% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.0% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.7%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.2% —
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 27.2%
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 this area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national figures of around 2.9%.
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 Burnside [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50222/burnside/topic/community