6.6% ▼ -39.9%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 6.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wurrumiyanga · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wurrumiyanga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Wurrumiyanga involves far less formal volunteering and unpaid household work than in other parts of the country. Only 6.6% of the population volunteers, a figure that is well below both the Northern Territory and national averages of 14.1%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is among the lowest for its area level, with only 6.6% of people pitching in, which is well below the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is uncommon here, with only 6.1% of people providing such support, well below the national figure of 11.9%. Housework figures are also far below the rest of the country, as only 2.5% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid work per week.
6.1% ▼ -29.3%
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.7%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▼ -28.7%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.5%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
2.5% ▼ -67.9%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 2.5%
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.
About 2.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the Australian average of 2.8% but well below the Northern Territory's 5.2%.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Wurrumiyanga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70295/wurrumiyanga/topic/community