25.1% ▲ +18.3%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 25.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Rumney · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Rumney
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines daily life in Mount Rumney, where 25.1% of people volunteer. This level of community involvement is far above the national figure and much higher than most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in four residents volunteer their time, which is well above the Tasmania figure of 18.0% and far above the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 17.8% of people providing support—much higher than most areas. This is consistent with the fact that 30.0% of residents provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above both state and national levels.
17.8% ▲ +52.6%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 17.1%
- 2021: 17.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.0% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.5% ▼ -7.5%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 23.5%
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 also more common in Mount Rumney than in most other areas, with 6.9% of people having served, which is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.9%
Higher than 89% 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 Mount Rumney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60432/mount-rumney/topic/community