13.2% ▼ -30.6%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.1%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mataranka · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Mataranka
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Mataranka (L) involves a modest level of community and family support, with 9.8% of people providing unpaid care. While some roles remain steady, the number of locals volunteering has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen by 5.9 percentage points since 2011 to 13.2%. This is much lower than most similar areas, though it remains about the same as the Northern Territory and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people provide unpaid care here than in most other areas, with only 9.8% doing so—a drop of 13 percentage points since 2011. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid (23.3%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (12.9%) are both well below the Northern Territory average.
9.8% ▼ -56.2%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.3% ▼ -23.9%
Lower than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 23.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.9% ▲ +103.5%
Lower than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 12.9%
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 common in Mataranka (L), with 3.9% of people having served. This is a little above the national figure of 2.8%, though a little below the Northern Territory's 5.2%.
3.9%
Higher than 58% 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 Mataranka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722020/mataranka/topic/community