21.2% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.2%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Upper Scamander · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Upper Scamander
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Upper Scamander contribute their time to others than in most similar areas. Roughly 23% of residents provide unpaid care, a figure that sits far above both the state and national averages.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.2% of people pitching in. This is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very high, with 23.1% of people helping others, which is far above the national figure. While fewer people care for children compared to other areas, 26.9% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, well above the Tasmanian average.
23.1% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.2% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 29.7%
- 2021: 21.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% —
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.8%
- 2021: 26.9%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the 4% recorded for Tasmania.
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 Upper Scamander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60709/upper-scamander/topic/community