3.2% ▼ -35.1%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Areyonga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Areyonga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Areyonga involves a very high level of unpaid care for family and home. Over half the people here look after children without pay, which is far above the national figure. While these home-based roles are common, formal volunteering is much lower than in other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 3.2% of people in Areyonga volunteer, which is far below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring roles are very common here, with 52.7% of people providing unpaid childcare, far above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with other high rates of unpaid work, including 26.3% who provide general unpaid care and 29.6% who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
26.3% ▲ +91.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
52.7% ▲ +75.6%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 58.4%
- 2021: 52.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.6% ▲ +787.1%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.3%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 29.6%
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 Areyonga has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Northern Territory average of 5.2%.
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 Areyonga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70017/areyonga/topic/community