22.8% ▼ -3.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 22.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Eggs And Bacon Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Eggs And Bacon Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 23% of people in Eggs And Bacon Bay volunteer their time, a figure well above the national average. This community is marked by high levels of unpaid help and service, with a strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.8% of residents giving their time. This is well above the 18% seen across Tasmania and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is frequent, as 20.2% of people provide unpaid care and 28.1% do over 15 hours of housework weekly, both well above national levels. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 15.8%, which is far below the Australian figure of 26.3%.
20.2% ▲ +5.3%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.8% ▼ -27.2%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 15.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.1% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 37.9%
- 2021: 28.1%
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 Force service is more common here than in most similar areas. About 4.4% of residents have served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.4%
Higher than 75% 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 Eggs And Bacon Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60183/eggs-and-bacon-bay/topic/community