18.0% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alawa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alawa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 27% of people in Alawa provide unpaid childcare, making it one of the most active areas for this type of support. The community shows a strong commitment to helping others, with volunteering rates and defence service figures both sitting above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% figure seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 27.3% of people care for children unpaid—a rate higher than most areas—only 9.8% provide other types of unpaid care, which is much lower than in most places. Just 18.5% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week.
9.8% ▲ +13.4%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.5% ▲ +9.8%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
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.
A higher proportion of people in Alawa have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.5% of the population having served.
3.5%
Higher than 64% 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 Alawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70003/alawa/topic/community