12.7% ▼ -16.6%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Pine Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Pine Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Pine Creek provide unpaid care and support compared to the rest of the territory. While 3.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, overall community participation in volunteering and care work is much lower than in most other Australian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in other areas, with 12.7% of people helping out. This is a little below the 14.1% figure seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very uncommon in Pine Creek; only 6.2% of people provide unpaid care, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (17.3%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (13.5%) are both far below the state and national averages.
6.2% ▼ -52.1%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 6.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.3% ▼ -44.4%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.5% ▼ -3.8%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 13.5%
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 share of people have served in the Defence Force here than in most similar areas. At 3.5%, this is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8% but a little below the Northern Territory's 5.2%.
3.5%
Higher than 64% 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 Pine Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70224/pine-creek/topic/community