17.4% ▼ -5.3%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.4%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Blackstone Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Blackstone Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Blackstone Heights provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure. This community shows a strong commitment to both family and the wider public through high levels of volunteering and care. These figures reflect a place where people are heavily engaged in supporting others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.4% of residents volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas. This is about the same as the Tasmanian figure and well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid childcare is common here, with 30.2% of people doing so, a figure well above both the state and national averages. Around 23.6% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, while 12.9% provide other unpaid care, which is about the same as the state average.
12.9% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.2% ▼ -9.0%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 30.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.6% ▼ -8.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 23.6%
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.
A higher proportion of residents than most areas have served in the Defence Force, at 3.3%. This is about the same as the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
3.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality 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 Blackstone Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60052/blackstone-heights/topic/community