14.7% ▼ -19.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Cambridge · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Cambridge
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of unpaid child care set Cambridge apart from the rest of the state and country. While 32.4% of residents provide unpaid care for children, other forms of community involvement are less common here than in other Tasmanian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.7% of people here volunteer, which is well below the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% but roughly the same as the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring roles are common in this area, with 14.2% of people providing unpaid care and 24.2% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures sitting above the national average.
14.2% ▲ +34.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 13.4%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.4% ▲ +5.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% ▼ -16.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.0%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 24.2%
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 people here have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.9% of residents having served, which is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Cambridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60090/cambridge/topic/community