6.9% ▼ -39.4%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 6.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Purte) · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Purte)
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 64.3% of people in Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Purte) (L) provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. While child care is a major focus here, other forms of community work and volunteering have seen a decline in recent years.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is quite low in this area, with only 6.9% of people pitching in. This is well below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia, and it has fallen 4.5 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The proportion of people caring for children unpaid has risen 25 points since 2011 to reach 64.3%, which is far above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, those doing 15 or more hours of housework have fallen to 5.2%, while unpaid care for others has barely changed at 11.3%.
11.3% ▲ +5.0%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 15.9%
- 2021: 11.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
64.3% ▲ +61.9%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 52.2%
- 2021: 64.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
5.2% ▼ -62.2%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.7%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 5.2%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Northern Territory's 5.2% and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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).
More for Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Purte)
Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Santa Teresa (Ltyentye Purte) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721014/santa-teresa/topic/community