17.3% ▲ +12.0%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 17.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Moonah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Moonah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than in most similar areas serve in the Defence Force in Moonah, where 3.3% of residents have done so. While the area shows a strong a community spirit with volunteering rates well above the national figure, residents are less likely than average to spend significant time on housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.3% of people in Moonah volunteer, a figure that is about the same as the Tasmanian average but well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here than in other areas, with only 11.8% of people providing unpaid care and a much lower proportion of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework compared to the rest of the state.
11.8% ▲ +2.6%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 10.8%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.6% ▼ -11.9%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.0%
- 2016: 24.7%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.8% ▼ -18.1%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 17.8%
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 higher share of residents in Moonah have served in the Defence Force compared to most similar areas, with 3.3% of the population having served.
3.3%
Higher than 60% 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 Moonah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60419/moonah/topic/community