19.1% ▼ -34.2%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Glaziers Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Glaziers Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid care in Glaziers Bay than in other similar areas. While 20.2% of residents provide unpaid care, the national figure is much lower at 11.9%. This high level of community support is seen alongside a strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people (19.1%) volunteer their time. This is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 41.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a figure far above the national average of 20.7%. However, the 11.7% of people caring for children unpaid is far below the 26.3% found across Australia.
20.2% ▲ +59.1%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
11.7% ▼ -46.1%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
41.5% ▲ +25.0%
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.2%
- 2016: 39.5%
- 2021: 41.5%
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.
A high proportion of the community has a military background, with 8.7% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is well above both the state figure of 4.0% and the national figure of 2.8%.
8.7%
Higher than 93% 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 Glaziers Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60227/glaziers-bay/topic/community