14.0% ▼ -27.3%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mataranka · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mataranka
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 14% of people in Mataranka volunteer their time, which is a similar rate to both the Territory and the rest of Australia. While volunteering is common, other forms of community and home support are much lower than usual for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The 14% of residents who volunteer is lower than in most other similar areas, though it sits just below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than usual here, with only 21.6% of people caring for children unpaid, well below the Northern Territory's 30.2%. This trend extends to housework, where only 11.4% of people do 15 or more hours a week, among the lowest rates in the country.
9.6% ▼ -19.2%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 4.0%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▲ +4.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
11.4% ▼ -32.9%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 11.4%
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.
A higher than usual 3.2% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Mataranka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70179/mataranka/topic/community