20.7% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Desert Springs · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Desert Springs
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Desert Springs provide unpaid child care, making it a community with very high levels of family support. This stands out as the most common form of community contribution in the area, alongside a strong tendency for residents to volunteer.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.7% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% recorded for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.7% of residents provide unpaid child care—which is well above the national figure of 26.3%—other forms of unpaid work are less common. Only 8.4% provide general unpaid care, a figure well below the 11.9% national average.
8.4% ▲ +61.3%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.2%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.7% ▲ +12.8%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.2%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 30.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.9% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 17.9%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most areas, with 4.4% of people having served. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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 Desert Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70078/desert-springs/topic/community