11.2% ▼ -34.5%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alice Springs · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Alice Springs
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement patterns in Alice Springs have remained relatively steady over the last decade. Very few people here perform unpaid care duties compared to other parts of the country, with only 3.7% providing unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 11.2% of residents volunteer their time. This is a little below the 14.1% figure for both the Northern Territory and Australia, and it is much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than elsewhere. Only 11.6% of people care for children unpaid, and just 12.1% spend 15 or more hours on housework, both of which are well below the national and state figures.
3.7% ▲ +2.8%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.6% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.1% ▲ +67.7%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 12.1%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.8% of the population. This is about the same as the national figure and a little below the Northern Territory's 5.2%.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70005/alice-springs/topic/community