9.8% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Targa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Targa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Very few residents in Targa engage in unpaid care or volunteering compared to the rest of the country. This is a community where only 9.8% of people volunteer, a figure that sits well below both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much lower than in most areas, with only 9.8% of people pitching in. This is well below the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is almost non-existent here, with 0.0% of people caring for children or providing other unpaid care. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are much fewer than in most areas at 14.6%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.6% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.4%
- 2021: 14.6%
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.
Defence service is lower than in most areas, with 0.0% of residents having served. This is well below the 4.0% seen across Tasmania and a little below the 2.8% national figure.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Targa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60666/targa/topic/community