20.2% ▲ +20.5%
Higher than 70% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.7%
- 2016: 18.1%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Exeter · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Exeter
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About one in five people in Exeter give their time to volunteering, which is well above the national figure. This community is more active in unpaid work than most other similar areas, though the number of people caring for children has dropped significantly over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.2% of people helping out. This is a little above the Tasmanian figure and has risen by 3.4 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure—only 20.4% provide unpaid childcare, which is well below both state and national levels. Unpaid care for others sits at 13.4%, which is about the same as the state average.
13.4% ▲ +5.6%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.4% ▼ -29.0%
Lower than 71% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.7%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.6% ▼ -13.2%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 29.5%
- 2016: 26.0%
- 2021: 25.6%
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 much higher share of people have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 5.6% of the population having served. This is a little above the figures for both Tasmania and Australia.
5.6%
Higher than 85% of urban centre 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 Exeter [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615007/exeter/topic/community