4.4% ▼ -33.5%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.6%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Elliott · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Elliott
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all residents in Elliott (L) provide unpaid childcare, a figure far above the national average. This highlights a community where family care is a central part of daily life, though formal volunteering is quite low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 4.4% of people volunteer, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas and well below the national figure of 14.1%. This rate has fallen 2.2 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common here, with 49% of people caring for children and 28.4% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, both figures far above the national average. In contrast, only 6.4% provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below the national figure.
6.4% ▲ +19.5%
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.3%
- 2016: 31.5%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
49.0% ▲ +116.3%
Higher than 97% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 61.3%
- 2021: 49.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.4% ▲ +215.6%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 28.4%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a rate 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 Elliott [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722014/elliott/topic/community