11.4% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mutitjulu · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Mutitjulu
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Forty-four percent of people in Mutitjulu provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure. This highlights a community where family care is a primary focus, though formal volunteering has fallen over the last decade. Very few residents have served in the military.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has dropped to 11.4% since 2011, which is a little below the national and state figures of 14.1%. This is much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Giving unpaid care is common here, with 21.2% of people providing support—well above the Australian figure of 11.9%. This is largely driven by childcare, as 43.6% of people care for children unpaid, a rate far above the rest of the country.
21.2% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
43.6% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 45.3%
- 2016: 33.7%
- 2021: 43.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.0% ▼ -78.9%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
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 rate 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 Mutitjulu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722023/mutitjulu/topic/community