19.4% ▼ -26.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 30.7%
- 2021: 19.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ocean Vista · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ocean Vista
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure, nearly one in five people in Ocean Vista volunteer their time. This community is more active in volunteering than both the state and national averages, though other forms of unpaid care are much less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.4% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the Tasmania figure of 18.0% and well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than most areas, with only 9.3% of people providing unpaid care and 22.0% caring for children unpaid, both of which are well below state and national levels.
9.3% ▲ +18.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.0% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.0%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.3% ▼ -23.7%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 21.3%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force, with 3.8% of residents having served, which is about the same as the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
3.8%
Higher than 68% 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 Ocean Vista [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60474/ocean-vista/topic/community