14.4% ▼ -22.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ouse · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Ouse
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Ouse has shifted over the last decade, though it remains a sparsely populated area. While about 14.4% of people volunteer, those who have served in the Defence Force make up 4.0% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Ouse are well below the Tasmanian figure of 18.0%, though they sit at 14.4%, which is about the same as the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children (21.2%) and general unpaid care (8.0%) are both well below state and national figures. However, people doing 15 or more hours of housework are more common here than in the rest of Australia.
8.0% ▼ -26.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.8%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 8.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.2% ▼ -5.4%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▲ +6.8%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas, with 4.0% of residents having served, a figure slightly above the national average of 2.8%.
4.0%
Higher than 72% 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 Ouse [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60484/ouse/topic/community