20.0% —
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Apslawn · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Apslawn
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A gap of nearly 6 percentage points separates Apslawn from the national average in volunteering. Apslawn is a community where residents are more likely to give their time to others than those in most other parts of Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20% of people here volunteer, which is higher than most areas. This is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 18% and well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25% of people provide unpaid childcare—similar to the national rate—no one in the area provides unpaid care for the elderly or disabled. This is far below the 11.9% seen across Australia. Meanwhile, 25% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Apslawn [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60018/apslawn/topic/community