17.1% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Finniss Valley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Finniss Valley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Local involvement in Finniss Valley has stayed steady, with 17.1% of people volunteering. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%. While volunteering is common, other forms of unpaid care and housework are much less frequent here than in the rest of the territory.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.1% of residents volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and well above the Northern Territory figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is uncommon here, with only 4.3% of people providing care and 5.7% caring for children—both figures are well below the national average. Similarly, the 14.3% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework is well below the Australian figure of 20.7%.
4.3% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
5.7% —
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.3% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.0%
- 2021: 14.3%
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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Northern Territory figure 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 Finniss Valley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70100/finniss-valley/topic/community