0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Flying Fox · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Flying Fox
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people engage in unpaid care and volunteering in Flying Fox compared to the rest of the country. While military service is more common here than elsewhere, the area sees very low levels of community volunteering and domestic care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
No one in Flying Fox reported volunteering, a figure far below the Northern Territory and national rates of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much lower than most areas, with only 5.1% of people providing unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework. This is well below the national figures and the Northern Territory's average.
5.1% ▼ -83.9%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.9% ▼ -75.4%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 68.9%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 16.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.1% ▼ -68.7%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.1%
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.
Military service is more common here than in most areas, with 6.9% of people having served in the Defence Force, which is well above the Australian average of 2.8%.
6.9%
Higher than 89% 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 Flying Fox [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70103/flying-fox/topic/community