17.0% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 22.0%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Alice Springs · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Alice Springs
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A smaller share of people provide unpaid care in Alice Springs compared to the national figure. While 17% of residents volunteer, this is a drop from the 21.6% seen in 2011. The area shows a mix of high rates of childcare and very low levels of other unpaid domestic work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17% of people in Alice Springs volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia. However, this level of community involvement has fallen by 4.6 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is common here, with 27.3% of people providing care, a figure about the same as the national average. In contrast, the proportion of people providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework is much lower than in most other areas.
8.6% ▲ +10.5%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 8.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.0% ▼ -5.5%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 16.0%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.6% of the population. This is much lower than in most similar areas and a little below the Northern Territory's 5.2% rate.
2.6%
Lower than 75% 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 Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL712001/alice-springs/topic/community