16.5% ▼ -13.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 13.9%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Rum Jungle · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Rum Jungle
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Rum Jungle volunteer than in most similar areas, with 16.5% of residents giving their time. This is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.5% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Northern Territory rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Few people here provide unpaid care for children, at 17.7%, which is far below the Territory figure. However, 22.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the Northern Territory's 17.1%.
8.9% ▲ +51.3%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.7% ▼ -5.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.8% ▼ -13.7%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 22.8%
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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Northern Territory average 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 Rum Jungle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70236/rum-jungle/topic/community