10.7% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Canberra Airport · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Canberra Airport
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in Canberra Airport provide unpaid childcare, making it the most common form of community contribution here. While many help with children, other forms of volunteering and unpaid care are much less common than in the rest of the territory.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is rare in this area, with only 10.7% of people helping out, a figure well below both the ACT and national levels.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 27.2% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is higher than most areas. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework (15.5%) and those providing other unpaid care (7.8%) are both well below the national figures.
7.8% —
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.2% —
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.5% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 15.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.8% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian average but well below the ACT figure.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Canberra Airport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80031/canberra-airport/topic/community