11.4% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tiwi Islands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tiwi Islands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few people in the Tiwi Islands have served in the Defence Force, which is a trend that has remained steady since 2011. The area is marked by a high number of people caring for children, though overall volunteering is lower than in most other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.4% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 33.3% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the 26.3% national average. In contrast, only 3.8% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure far below the national rate of 20.7%.
9.8% ▼ -24.3%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% ▼ -22.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.1%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.8% ▼ -71.1%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 3.8%
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 lower than most areas and well below the Northern Territory figure 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 Tiwi Islands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70263/tiwi-islands/topic/community