10.3% ▲ +69.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Emu Heights · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Emu Heights
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Emu Heights than in most similar areas. Only 10.3% of residents give their time to community groups, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. However, a very high number of locals are heavily involved in unpaid care at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 10.3% of people here volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Tasmanian average of 18.0% and the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care work is very common in Emu Heights, where 32.4% of people look after children unpaid, which is much higher than most areas. Around 24.1% of residents also do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework a week, which is well above the national figure.
13.1% ▲ +112.3%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.2%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.4% ▲ +35.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▲ +1.5%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
About 2.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the national figure and around the middle for similar areas.
2.1%
Lower than 58% 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 Emu Heights [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60190/emu-heights/topic/community