20.4% ▼ -16.4%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gray · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Gray
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Gray is marked by a strong commitment to helping others, with 20.4% of people volunteering. This is well above the national figure and higher than most similar areas. While many residents spend significant time on unpaid home duties, very few have served in the military.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people here volunteer, which is a little above the Tasmania average and well above the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Home duties are common, as 33.3% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework per week, a figure far above the national average. While 27.8% of people provide unpaid childcare, only 5.6% provide other types of unpaid care, which is well below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
5.6% ▼ -65.2%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.0%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.8% ▲ +33.3%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.8%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% ▼ -15.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.5%
- 2016: 36.1%
- 2021: 33.3%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the state rate of 4.0%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Gray [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60249/gray/topic/community