16.5% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Yolla · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Yolla
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people are stepping up to provide unpaid support in Yolla than in most other similar areas. The community is especially active in caregiving, with over 32% of residents providing unpaid child care. This high level of support extends to housework and general caregiving, which are both well above national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.5% of people in Yolla volunteer, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1% but slightly lower than the Tasmanian average of 18.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is very common here, with 20.3% of people providing unpaid care—a figure well above the 11.9% seen across Australia. This is consistent with a much higher rate of people doing unpaid housework (29.9%) and child care (32.5%) compared to the rest of the state.
20.3% ▲ +65.9%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.5% ▲ +23.4%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 32.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
29.9% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 32.0%
- 2021: 29.9%
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.
A higher proportion of the community has served in the Defence Force, with 5.6% of residents having served, which is a little above both the state and national figures.
5.6%
Higher than 86% 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 Yolla [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60772/yolla/topic/community