18.1% ▲ +97.4%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lower Longley · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lower Longley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Lower Longley provide unpaid childcare than in most other areas, with only 18.9% doing so. This reflects a community where a smaller proportion of residents are tied to child-rearing duties compared to the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.1% of residents volunteer, which is about the same as the Tasmanian average and well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare (18.9%) and housework (16.0%) are both well below state and national levels, a little more people provide other types of unpaid care (14.8%) than is typical for Australia.
14.8% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.7%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.9% ▼ -28.7%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 18.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.0% ▼ -30.9%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 16.0%
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 more common here than in most areas, with 4.1% of people having served, which is a little above the national figure.
4.1%
Higher than 73% 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 Lower Longley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60360/lower-longley/topic/community