16.7% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wulagi · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wulagi
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Wulagi shows a strong tendency toward community and family support, with child care and defence service figures that stand out among similar areas. Roughly 30.4% of residents provide unpaid child care, a figure well above the national average. This spirit of contribution is also seen in a higher-than-usual proportion of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of people in Wulagi volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% figure seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid child care is very common here, with 30.4% of people providing it, which is well above the 26.3% national figure. Other forms of support are less common, as the 11.4% who provide general unpaid care is lower than in most areas.
11.4% ▲ +50.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 9.6%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.4% ▼ -1.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 30.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.5% ▲ +7.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 20.5%
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.
A much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.5% of the population having served. This is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Wulagi [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70294/wulagi/topic/community