8.1% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pamayu · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pamayu
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 8.1% of people volunteer in Pamayu, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This low level of community activity is a defining feature of the area, where unpaid support and service roles are far less common than in other parts of the territory.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest for areas like this, with only 8.1% of residents pitching in, well below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is lower than most areas at 21.6%, and no one reported doing 15 or more hours of unpaid housework per week. However, 10.8% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the Northern Territory figure of 9.5%.
10.8% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% —
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.0%
- 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.
No one in Pamayu has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Northern Territory's 5.2% and a little below the national 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 Pamayu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70217/pamayu/topic/community