5.0% ▼ -34.4%
Lower than 98% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.6%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Binjari · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Binjari
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A massive gap in unpaid care separates Binjari (L) from the rest of the country, with 64.6% of people looking after children without pay. This is far above the national figure and marks a sharp increase for the area over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 5% of residents volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the Northern Territory figure of 14.1%. This rate has fallen 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here; 27.3% of people do at least 15 hours of housework weekly, which is well above the national figure. Providing other unpaid care is also more frequent than in the Territory, with 13.7% of people helping out.
13.7% ▲ +101.8%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
64.6% ▲ +114.5%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 64.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.3% ▲ +58.9%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 27.3%
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.
No one in Binjari (L) has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Northern Territory average of 5.2%.
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).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Binjari [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722011/binjari/topic/community