17.0% —
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Surges Bay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Surges Bay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Surges Bay sits around the middle of similar areas for most types of community contribution. The most striking feature is that residents here are far more likely to spend significant time on housework than people across the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17% of people in Surges Bay volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1% and nearly the same as the Tasmanian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While roughly 12.8% of people provide unpaid care and 24.8% look after children, a much higher than usual 31.9% spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework.
12.8% —
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.9%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% —
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.9% —
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 36.8%
- 2021: 31.9%
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.
A small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, with 2.7% of the population having done so, which is about the same as the national figure.
2.7%
Higher than 51% 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 Surges Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60655/surges-bay/topic/community