7.4% ▼ -32.3%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Namatjira · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Namatjira
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 68% of people in Namatjira provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This high rate of family care is the most striking part of community life here, though other forms of volunteering and service are much less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 7.4% of people volunteer their time, which is well below the 14.1% recorded for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 67.8% of people provide unpaid childcare—far above the national figure of 26.3%—very few provide other types of care. Only 4.1% provide general unpaid care and 14.9% do 15 or more hours of housework, both figures being well below the Australian average.
4.1% ▼ -67.7%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
67.8% ▲ +63.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.4%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 67.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.9% ▲ +21.0%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 14.9%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Northern Territory rate of 5.2%.
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 Namatjira [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70202/namatjira/topic/community