16.7% ▲ +4.6%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.9%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Conara · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Conara
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Conara has remained steady, with a striking 30.4% of residents putting in significant unpaid housework. While volunteering is common, the area is most notable for having far fewer people caring for children compared to the rest of the state and country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of people in Conara volunteer, which is a little below the Tasmanian figure but a little above the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A much higher proportion of people here do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework (30.4%) than in most other areas. This stands in contrast to childcare, as those caring for children unpaid (16.7%) are well below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
10.8% ▲ +6.9%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.7% ▼ -19.5%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.4% ▲ +25.3%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 30.4%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most areas, with 3.7% of residents having served, a figure about the same as the state and national averages.
3.7%
Higher than 68% 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 Conara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60123/conara/topic/community