18.5% ▼ -13.9%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gravelly Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gravelly Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high number of former service members distinguishes Gravelly Beach from most similar areas. While volunteering rates are typical for the region, the area has a much higher proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 18.5% of people volunteer their time, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure and well above the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the state and national figures at 20.3%. However, 13.6% of people provide some form of unpaid care, and 22.5% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
13.6% ▲ +19.6%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▼ -34.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% ▼ -27.1%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 22.5%
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.
The proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force is 6.4%, which is much higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.4%
Higher than 88% 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 Gravelly Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60248/gravelly-beach/topic/community