22.2% ▼ -2.2%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
York Plains · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in York Plains
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong spirit of volunteering shapes daily life in York Plains, where community involvement is far more common than in most other areas. About 22.2% of residents give their time to volunteer, a figure well above the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The volunteer rate of 22.2% is well above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and significantly higher than the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here, with only 5.6% of people providing unpaid care, which is well below the national figure of 11.9%. This trend is reflected in child care, where the 20.4% who care for children unpaid is well below the Australian average of 26.3%, though 24.1% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
5.6% ▼ -17.6%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 14.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.4% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -8.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 37.5%
- 2021: 24.1%
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure well below the 4.0% seen across 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 York Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60773/york-plains/topic/community