2.8% ▼ -65.8%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Peppimenarti · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Peppimenarti
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Half of all residents in Peppimenarti now provide unpaid childcare, reflecting a massive shift in how people contribute to their community. While traditional volunteering is very rare here, the local burden of unpaid domestic work and childcare is far higher than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 2.8% of people volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and far below the 14.1% figure for both the Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is very common, with 50% of people doing so, far above the national figure of 26.3%. This is consistent with high levels of housework, as 30.6% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on chores, though no one here provides other types of unpaid care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.4%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
50.0% ▲ +4.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 47.9%
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 50.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.6% ▲ +266.7%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 30.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2% of the population, which is lower than most areas and well below the Northern Territory rate of 5.2%.
2.0%
Lower 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 Peppimenarti [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70221/peppimenarti/topic/community