5.0% ▼ -13.9%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.8%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Binjari · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Binjari
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 65% of people provide unpaid childcare in Binjari, a figure far above the national average. While family care is very common here, other forms of community involvement and service are much lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5% of residents volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 27.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is well above the national figure of 20.7%, and 13.7% of people provide some form of unpaid care.
13.7% ▼ -24.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.1%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
64.6% ▲ +71.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 64.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.3% ▲ +34.1%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 27.3%
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, a rate 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 Binjari [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70033/binjari/topic/community