9.7% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tortilla Flats · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tortilla Flats
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Just 9.7% of people provide unpaid care in Tortilla Flats, making it a place with very low levels of community and family support work. This trend extends across most participation metrics, with far fewer residents volunteering or caring for children compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is uncommon here, with only 9.7% of residents helping out. This is well below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very rare in the area, with 0.0% of people caring for children and only 9.7% spending 15 or more hours on housework. These figures are far below the national and territory averages.
9.7% —
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
9.7% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Tortilla Flats has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the 5.2% seen across the Northern Territory.
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 Tortilla Flats [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70265/tortilla-flats/topic/community