18.6% ▲ +27.6%
Higher than 60% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.6%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dunalley · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Dunalley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher levels of community and family involvement mark Dunalley, where volunteering and unpaid care are more common than in most similar areas. Nearly one in five people volunteer their time, and nearly 29% of residents provide unpaid childcare.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has grown here, with 18.6% of people helping out. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and represents a 4 percentage point increase since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common, as 26.3% of people do 15 or more hours of housework and 28.7% care for children, both well above the state and national figures. However, those providing other types of unpaid care have fallen to 9.7%, which is much lower than most areas.
9.7% ▼ -33.1%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.5%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.7% ▼ -2.4%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 35.4%
- 2021: 28.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.3% ▼ -1.1%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 26.3%
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.
Serving in the Defence Force is more common here than elsewhere, with 6.8% of people having served. This is well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
6.8%
Higher than 91% 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 Dunalley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622006/dunalley/topic/community