6.8% ▼ -42.3%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Burges · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Burges
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Mount Burges provide unpaid childcare, which is a much higher rate than most other areas. While childcare is common, other forms of community contribution are quite low here, with very few people volunteering or serving in the military.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.8% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below the national average of 14.1% and among the lowest for similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.7% of people care for children unpaid, which is well above the Australian figure, other unpaid work is rare. Only 3.4% provide general unpaid care and 17% do 15 or more hours of housework, both of which are well below the state and national figures.
3.4% ▼ -25.0%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.5%
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 3.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.7% ▲ +58.1%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.4%
- 2016: 47.3%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.0% ▲ +34.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 17.0%
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 community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national rates of around 2.8% to 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 Mount Burges [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51006/mount-burges/topic/community