# Community Participation — Quoiba - Spreyton

How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.

Area: Quoiba - Spreyton (Statistical Area 2 (SA2))

More people than usual provide unpaid care in Quoiba - Spreyton, though this is balanced by a volunteering rate that has dropped over the last decade. While 27.7% of residents look after children without pay, only 14.5% of the population now spends time volunteering.

Volunteering in Quoiba - Spreyton has fallen 4.0 percentage points since 2011 to 14.5%. This figure is well below the Tasmanian average of 18.0%, though it remains about the same as the national figure.

Care work is common here, with 27.7% of people caring for children and 23.3% doing at least 15 hours of housework weekly, both of which are higher than most areas. Meanwhile, 12.4% provide other unpaid care, a figure that rose 1.1 percentage points since 2011.

A higher share of people in Quoiba - Spreyton have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.3% of the population having served.

## Statistics

| Statistic | Value | Change since |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Volunteers | 14.5% | -21.7% since 2011 |
| People providing unpaid care | 12.4% | +10.0% since 2011 |
| People caring for children unpaid | 27.7% | -18.6% since 2011 |
| People who served in the Defence Force | 3.3% | — |
| People doing 15+ hours of unpaid housework | 23.3% | -19.1% since 2011 |

Interactive: https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/604021090/quoiba-spreyton/topic/community