16.4% ▼ -20.7%
Higher than 66% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Murray Bridge · Urban Area
Community Participation in Murray Bridge
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Murray Bridge involves a strong commitment to helping others, with 13.7% of people providing unpaid care. While volunteering has dipped recently, the area still sees more people giving their time to the community than most other similar places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.4% of residents volunteer, which is higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this is a drop from 2011, when volunteering stood at 20.7%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 13.7% of people helping out. In contrast, the 23.1% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
13.7% ▲ +17.3%
Higher than 73% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% ▼ -8.9%
Lower than 81% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.2% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 58% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 21.2%
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 service is around the same as the rest of the country, with 2.9% of people having served in the Defence Force.
2.9%
Lower than 65% of urban area 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 Murray Bridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/4003/murray-bridge/topic/community