16.8% ▼ -16.0%
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Dover · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Dover
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than five times as many people have served in the Defence Force in Dover than the national average. This small community sees high levels of veteran presence and significant amounts of unpaid housework, though child care rates are much lower than usual.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.8% of people in Dover volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and slightly above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 18.9%, while 25.5% of people do 15 or more hours of housework, a figure well above both the state and national levels. Overall, 11.8% provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little below the Tasmanian average.
11.8% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.9% ▼ -3.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.5% ▼ -11.7%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.9%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 25.5%
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 very common here, with 5.8% of the population having served. This is much higher than most similar areas and a little above the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
5.8%
Higher than 86% 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 Dover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60165/dover/topic/community