8.3% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Talawa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Talawa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 40% of people in Talawa spend 15 or more hours a week on unpaid housework, a figure far above the state and national averages. While domestic work is common, other forms of community and care work are much less frequent here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is rare in the area, with only 8.3% of people helping out. This is well below both the Tasmanian figure of 18% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for others is very low, with 0% of people providing such support. This trend continues with childcare, where only 20.8% of people provide unpaid care for children, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
39.6% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 48.0%
- 2021: 39.6%
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 high proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force. At 7.7%, this is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
7.7%
Higher than 91% 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 Talawa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60664/talawa/topic/community