21.4% ▼ -12.6%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.5%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Park Grove · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Park Grove
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of helping others defines Park Grove, where volunteering is far more common than in the rest of the country. About 21.4% of residents give their time to causes, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is high here, with 21.4% of people helping out. This is well above the 18.0% seen in Tasmania and much higher than the 14.1% across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care for children is very common in Park Grove, with 30.3% of people doing so, which is well above both state and national figures. Other forms of unpaid work are more typical, with 12.3% providing general care and 22.9% doing 15 or more hours of housework.
12.3% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▲ +0.3%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.9% ▼ -11.7%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 26.4%
- 2021: 22.9%
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 frequent here than in most similar areas, with 3.3% of residents having served. This is about the same as the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
3.3%
Higher than 61% 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 Park Grove [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60490/park-grove/topic/community