13.2% ▲ +29.9%
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.2%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Derwent Park · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Derwent Park
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 24% of people in Derwent Park provide unpaid child care, making it the most common form of community contribution here. While many help out at home, other forms of local involvement and unpaid work are generally lower than the state figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with only 13.2% of people pitching in. This is well below the Tasmania figure of 18.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less frequent than usual, with only 10.5% of people providing care and 14.7% doing over 15 hours of housework. Both figures are well below the national and state averages.
10.5% ▼ -19.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.9% ▼ -22.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.7% ▼ -31.7%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 14.7%
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 number of people have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 3.2% of the population having served.
3.2%
Higher than 59% 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 Derwent Park [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60152/derwent-park/topic/community