22.3% ▼ -16.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 29.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tolmans Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tolmans Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher levels of community involvement define Tolmans Hill, where residents are far more likely to volunteer and provide unpaid care than people in most other areas. Nearly a quarter of the population volunteers, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.3% of people giving their time. This is well above the 18% seen across Tasmania and the 14.1% recorded for Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 31.6% of residents provide unpaid childcare, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. While 14.8% of people provide some form of unpaid care, only 19.1% spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is a little below the national average.
14.8% ▲ +99.7%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.4%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.6% ▼ -18.8%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.0%
- 2016: 31.2%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.1% ▼ -3.0%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 19.2%
- 2021: 19.1%
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 much more common here than in similar areas. About 6.1% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is well above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
6.1%
Higher than 87% 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 Tolmans Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60682/tolmans-hill/topic/community