20.2% ▼ -18.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Stirling · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Stirling
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Stirling give their time to volunteer, making it a place where community contribution is common. Residents here are much more likely to step up for others than people in the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.2% of the community volunteers, which is a little above the ACT figure of 18.4% and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 16.3% of people providing such support, a figure well above both the ACT and Australia. This includes 29.7% of residents caring for children unpaid and 23.8% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
16.3% ▲ +28.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.7% ▼ -3.8%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.9%
- 2016: 33.1%
- 2021: 29.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.8% ▲ +3.3%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
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.
Military service is more frequent here than in most areas, with 7.5% of people having served in the Defence Force, well above the national figure of 2.8%.
7.5%
Higher than 90% 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 Stirling [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80119/stirling/topic/community