23.8% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wagait Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wagait Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement has remained a strong feature of Wagait Beach, where nearly a quarter of residents volunteer. This level of participation is well above the national and territory figures. The area also sees a higher than usual proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 23.8% of people here volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% recorded for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 23.2%, though a higher share of residents do 15 or more hours of housework compared to the national figure.
11.9% ▲ +4.0%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.2% ▲ +3.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 24.3%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most areas, with 4.3% of residents having served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.3%
Higher than 75% 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 Wagait Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70276/wagait-beach/topic/community