19.7% ▼ -18.8%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.2%
- 2016: 23.7%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Araluen · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Araluen
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 20% of people in Araluen give their time to volunteering, making it a place where locals are more active in the community than in the rest of the Territory. This spirit of helping others is a key part of daily life here, though rates of unpaid care vary across the neighborhood.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.7% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% figure for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring for children is common, with 31.5% of people doing so unpaid, which is well above the national figure. However, only 8.4% provide other types of unpaid care, a rate that is well below the Australian average.
8.4% ▲ +13.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 7.4%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.5% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 31.6%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.5% ▲ +5.9%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 19.9%
- 2021: 19.5%
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.
About 3.0% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the national figure but a little below the Northern Territory average.
3.0%
Higher than 56% 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 Araluen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70015/araluen/topic/community