18.6% ▼ -4.7%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 18.3%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Port Arthur · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Port Arthur
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people provide unpaid care in Port Arthur compared to the rest of the state. While 19.9% of residents provide this support, the area is notably uncommon for its very low rate of unpaid childcare. This creates a community profile where care for adults or the elderly is much more typical than caring for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.6% of people volunteer their time, which is around the middle for similar areas and well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is very rare here at 12.7%, far below the Tasmanian average. However, 24.4% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and nearly one in five residents provide some form of unpaid care.
19.9% ▲ +55.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 16.5%
- 2021: 19.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.7% ▼ -36.4%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.9%
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.4% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 25.2%
- 2021: 24.4%
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.
Only 1.8% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and a little below the state average.
1.8%
Lower 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 Port Arthur [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60513/port-arthur/topic/community