39.4% —
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 39.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sturt Plateau · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sturt Plateau
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 40% of people volunteer in Sturt Plateau, a figure far higher than the national average. This strong level of community involvement stands in contrast to very low rates of unpaid care for children and other people in the area.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 39.4% of residents helping out, which is 25 percentage points above both the Northern Territory and Australian figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 24.2% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—very few provide other types of care. Only 9.1% care for children unpaid, and no one in the area provides unpaid care for people with disabilities or the elderly.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.1% —
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 24.2%
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 Sturt Plateau has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and 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 Sturt Plateau [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70246/sturt-plateau/topic/community