17.4% ▼ -18.3%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
North Motton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in North Motton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a quarter of people in North Motton spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework. This is a much higher rate than in other parts of the state and the nation. While many locals contribute through unpaid work, fewer have served in the military compared to typical Australian areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.4% of people here volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and roughly the same as the Tasmanian figure. This is well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is about the same as the national and state figures at 25.8%. However, 28.3% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
12.0% ▲ +1.4%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 15.4%
- 2021: 12.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.8% ▼ -17.3%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.2%
- 2016: 27.6%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.3% ▼ -10.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.6%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 28.3%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 1.4% of the population. This is lower than most areas and a little below the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 North Motton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60461/north-motton/topic/community