3.0% ▼ -86.4%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Venn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Venn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 3% of people volunteer in Venn, a figure far below the same rate of 14.1% seen across the Northern Territory and Australia. This reflects a broader trend in the area, where rates of unpaid care and community service are much lower than typical for the region.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very low here, with just 3% of residents giving their time, which is 11 percentage points lower than the national and territory figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is far less common in Venn than elsewhere. Only 13.4% of people care for children unpaid, and just 3.7% provide general unpaid care, both of which are well below the national averages.
3.7% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.4% ▼ -53.5%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 2.9%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.5% ▼ -75.7%
Lower than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.5%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the 5.2% recorded 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 Venn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70271/venn/topic/community