22.3% ▼ -28.6%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lower Snug · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lower Snug
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Lower Snug volunteer, making it a place where community involvement is much higher than the national average. This spirit of helping out extends into the home, where residents spend significantly more time on unpaid care and housework than people across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.3% of people helping out. This is well above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Childcare and home duties are a big part of life for many, as 33.2% of people provide unpaid child care and 26.3% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework. Both figures are well above the national average.
13.3% ▼ -0.5%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.2% ▼ -9.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.8%
- 2016: 36.5%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.3% ▼ -15.9%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 26.3%
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.
A bigger share of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most other areas, at 4.5%. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Snug [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60362/lower-snug/topic/community