12.2% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.7%
- 2021: 12.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Seymour · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Seymour
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have fallen in Mount Seymour, where only 12.2% of people now give their time to others. This is a small community where a striking 14.5% of residents have served in the Defence Force, far higher than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 12.2% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas and well below the Tasmanian figure of 18.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the national figure at 13.5%, yet 17.6% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, which is much higher than most areas. Around 23.0% of people do 15 or more hours of housework a week, slightly above the national figure.
17.6% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.5% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.0% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 23.0%
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.
Military service is very common here, with 14.5% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is far above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
14.5%
Higher than 99% 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 Seymour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60433/mount-seymour/topic/community