20.6% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 20.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Needles · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Needles
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than six percentage points more people volunteer in Needles than the national figure. This community is very active in giving back, with 20.6% of residents volunteering their time. This is higher than most similar areas across the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people (20.6%) volunteer here, which is a little above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common in Needles, with 32.4% of people providing this care, which is well above both the state and national figures. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are much fewer than in most areas at 14.7%.
14.7% —
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.4% —
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 32.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.7% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 14.7%
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.
No one in Needles has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is well below the Tasmanian average of 4.0%.
0.0%
Lower 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 Needles [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60447/needles/topic/community