10.3% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Grasstree Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Grasstree Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people provide unpaid support in Grasstree Hill than in most similar areas, though formal volunteering is rare. This is a place where 18.4% of residents provide unpaid care, which is well above the national figure of 11.9%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.3% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below both the Tasmanian average of 18.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 31.0% of people caring for children and 29.9% doing over 15 hours of housework weekly. Both figures are well above those for Tasmania and Australia.
18.4% ▲ +51.3%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.0% ▲ +29.9%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 32.6%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.9% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 29.9%
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 much more common here than elsewhere, with 10.7% of people having served. This is well above the 4.0% seen across Tasmania and the 2.8% national average.
10.7%
Higher than 97% 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 Grasstree Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60246/grasstree-hill/topic/community