7.5% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
McArthur · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in McArthur
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few residents in McArthur engage in unpaid care or volunteer work compared to similar areas. Only 7.5% of the population volunteer, which is well below both the Northern Territory and national figures of 14.1%. This trend of low participation extends across most forms of community and household support.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest in the region at 7.5%. This is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia and the Northern Territory.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is far less common here than elsewhere, with only 12.7% of people caring for children unpaid. This is far below the Northern Territory's 30.2%, while those providing any unpaid care (3.2%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (15.6%) are also well below national figures.
3.2% ▼ -61.8%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.7% ▼ -41.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.6% ▼ -32.8%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 15.6%
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.
About 2.6% of the population served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the 2.8% national figure and puts McArthur around the middle for its level.
2.6%
Lower than 51% 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 McArthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70180/mcarthur/topic/community