21.8% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Connellan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Connellan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Connellan than in most similar areas. About 21.8% of residents give their time to help others, a figure that is well above the national and territory average of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are high here, with 21.8% of the community participating, which is 7.7 percentage points higher than the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common in this area, as the 5.8% of people providing care is well below the national 11.9%. This is consistent with the fact that those caring for children unpaid (19.7%) are far below the territory average of 30.2%.
5.8% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.7% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 27.8%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.8% ▲ +15.7%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 21.8%
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.
Around 3.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.1%
Higher than 58% 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 Connellan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70061/connellan/topic/community