12.5% —
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Wiltshire · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Wiltshire
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Wiltshire is marked by a very high rate of unpaid work and family support. While only 12.5% of people volunteer, a quarter of the population provides some form of unpaid care, which is far above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates are much lower than in most other areas, with only 12.5% of people helping out, well below the Tasmanian figure of 18%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, as 25% of people provide unpaid care, far above the national rate of 11.9%. This is consistent with the area having some of the highest rates of people caring for children unpaid (37.5%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week (33.3%).
25.0% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
37.5% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.0%
- 2021: 37.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 lower than most other areas and well below the state 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 Wiltshire [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60757/wiltshire/topic/community