0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Flynn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Flynn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Flynn is among the least active areas for traditional community roles, with almost no residents involved in volunteering or formal care. However, a striking 30.5% of people here provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very rare in Flynn, where 0.0% of people volunteer. This is far below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 30.5% of people provide unpaid childcare—a rate much higher than most areas—no one in Flynn reports providing other unpaid care or spending 15 or more hours a week on housework.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.5% ▲ +26.5%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 30.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 uncommon here, with 0.0% of residents having served. This is well below the Northern Territory figure of 5.2% and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
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 Flynn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70104/flynn/topic/community