17.6% ▲ +3.9%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.9%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Stowport · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Stowport
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher proportion of people do heavy housework in Stowport than in the rest of the country. This community sees 31.3% of residents spending 15 or more hours a week on unpaid chores, which is well above both the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.6% of people here volunteer, a figure that is about the same as the Tasmanian average and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.9% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is similar to the rest of Australia, only 11.0% provide other types of unpaid care—a rate a little below the state average.
11.0% ▲ +25.4%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 10.6%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.9% ▼ -10.0%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.9%
- 2016: 26.5%
- 2021: 26.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.3% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 31.3%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 1.9% of the population, which is lower than most similar areas and a little below the Tasmanian average of 4.0%.
1.9%
Lower than 60% 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 Stowport [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60645/stowport/topic/community