21.6% ▼ -8.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Oatlands · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Oatlands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher proportion of people get involved in their community in Oatlands compared to most similar areas. This is most evident in the volunteering rate, where 21.6% of residents give their time, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 21.6% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the national figure at 15.9%, and only 19.1% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly. However, 14.5% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the national and state rates.
14.5% ▲ +16.5%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.9% ▼ -30.3%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.1% ▼ -28.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 have served in the Defence Force make up 3.8% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the Australian average.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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 Oatlands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60473/oatlands/topic/community