13.2% —
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Epping Forest · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Epping Forest
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Epping Forest involves a higher-than-usual number of people providing care for others, though formal volunteering is less common. Around 14.5% of residents provide unpaid care, which is higher than most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.2% of people volunteer here, a figure that is much lower than most areas and well below the Tasmanian rate of 18.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While a higher than usual 14.5% of residents provide unpaid care, those caring for children unpaid are well below the national figure at 17.1%. Conversely, 25.0% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above both the state and national figures.
14.5% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.1% —
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% —
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is more common here than in most areas, with 3.9% of the population having served. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
3.9%
Higher than 70% 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 Epping Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60191/epping-forest/topic/community