3.7% ▼ -88.3%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.0%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Bulman - Weemol · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Bulman - Weemol
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Significant shifts in community roles have occurred in Bulman - Weemol (L) since 2011. While volunteering has dropped sharply, there has been a huge increase in people providing unpaid care. Today, 67.4% of the community looks after children without pay, a figure far above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen steeply here, dropping 28 percentage points since 2011. Only 3.7% of people now volunteer, which is far below the Northern Territory and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are very common, with 22.5% of people providing unpaid care—much higher than the 11.9% seen nationally. This is consistent with the 67.4% of residents who provide unpaid childcare, a figure that rose 40 points since 2011.
22.5% ▲ +406.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.4%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 22.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
67.4% ▲ +144.2%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 58.5%
- 2021: 67.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -1.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 21.4%
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.
Very few people in the area have served in the Defence Force. At 1.6%, this is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Northern Territory figure of 5.2%.
1.6%
Lower than 89% 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 Bulman - Weemol [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722012/bulman-weemol/topic/community