17.9% ▼ -28.2%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 46.3%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Highcroft · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Highcroft
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all adults in Highcroft do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is a striking figure that sits far above both state and national levels. The area also has a notably high proportion of people who have served in the Defence Force.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.9% of people here volunteer, which is similar to the Tasmanian average and well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 46.2% of residents do significant unpaid housework, the proportion of people providing unpaid care or looking after children is much lower than in most other areas.
7.7% ▼ -47.7%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 29.3%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% ▼ -44.0%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 41.2%
- 2016: 34.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
46.2% ▲ +9.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.0%
- 2016: 39.0%
- 2021: 46.2%
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 common here, with 9.3% of people having served, a figure well above the 4% seen across Tasmania and the 2.8% national average.
9.3%
Higher than 94% 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 Highcroft [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60273/highcroft/topic/community