8.1% ▼ -40.4%
Lower than 92% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Galiwinku · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Galiwinku
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 69% of people in Galiwinku provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. While family care is a major part of life here, other forms of community work like volunteering are much less common than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 8.1% of residents volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% seen across the Northern Territory and Australia. This figure has fallen 5.5 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is common here, with 20.9% of people doing so, well above the national figure. This is driven largely by childcare, where 68.5% of people help out, far exceeding the 26.3% average for Australia.
20.9% ▲ +17.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 20.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
68.5% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 72.4%
- 2016: 67.0%
- 2021: 68.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.4% ▼ -27.5%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 15.4%
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 rare in Galiwinku, with only 1.2% of people having served. This is a little below the Australian average of 2.8% and well below the Territory figure of 5.2%.
1.2%
Lower than 92% 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 Galiwinku [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715001/galiwinku/topic/community