13.9% ▼ -16.5%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dinner Plain · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Dinner Plain
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Unpaid care and support are much less common in Dinner Plain than in other areas. While 13.9% of people volunteer, the level of unpaid housework and childcare has dropped sharply since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The proportion of people who volunteer is 13.9%, which is lower than most areas and has fallen by 2.8 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Far fewer people provide unpaid support here than in the rest of the country. Only 16.5% care for children unpaid, and no one is recorded as providing general unpaid care, both of which are far below state and national figures.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.5% ▼ -50.9%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 33.6%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
13.0% ▼ -50.3%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 27.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
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 service is uncommon in the area, with 2.6% of people having served in the Defence Force, a figure about the same as the state and national averages.
2.6%
Lower than 76% of urban centre 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 Dinner Plain [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL222018/dinner-plain/topic/community