6.4% ▼ -42.5%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.1%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Arafura · State Electorate
Community Participation in Arafura
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Arafura have spent time volunteering since 2011, with only 6.4% now doing so. While child care roles are common, the area sees much lower levels of general community volunteering and defence service than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.4% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the Northern Territory and Australian figures of 14.1%. This is a drop of 4.7 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly half of residents (48.0%) provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the Australian average of 26.3%. However, 14.0% do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
11.2% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 11.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
48.0% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 52.1%
- 2016: 46.5%
- 2021: 48.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.0% ▲ +21.1%
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 14.0%
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 Force veterans make up 1.8% of the population, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Northern Territory rate of 5.2%.
1.8%
Lower than 80% of state electorate 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 Arafura [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70001/arafura/topic/community