5.5% ▲ +48.0%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gunbalanya · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gunbalanya
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Gunbalanya than in most similar areas. While only 5.5% of residents volunteer, over half the community is involved in the unpaid care of children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5.5% of people volunteer here, which is among the lowest for this type of area and well below the Northern Territory and national figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 57.2% of people caring for children—far above the same figure for Australia (26.3%). This is consistent with 21.2% of residents providing general unpaid care, which is well above the national rate of 11.9%.
21.2% ▲ +105.5%
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.3%
- 2016: 10.7%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
57.2% ▲ +19.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 48.1%
- 2016: 54.7%
- 2021: 57.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.0% ▲ +179.0%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 20.0%
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.
Only 1.0% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most similar areas and well below the Northern Territory figure of 5.2%.
1.0%
Lower than 67% 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 Gunbalanya [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70115/gunbalanya/topic/community