14.3% ▼ -35.9%
Lower than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 20.9%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Primrose Sands · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Primrose Sands
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A drop in volunteering and childcare duties has shaped the recent social trends in Primrose Sands. While 14.3% of residents now volunteer, this is a significant fall from 22.3% in 2011. The area still sees a high number of people providing unpaid care to others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen by 8 percentage points since 2011 to 14.3%. This is well below the Tasmanian figure of 18.0%, though it is about the same as the national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Much fewer people provide unpaid childcare here than in most other areas, at just 17.4%. However, providing unpaid care for others is more common than usual at 13.8%, while 24.5% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
13.8% ▲ +16.9%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% ▼ -29.9%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.8%
- 2016: 25.1%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▼ -5.4%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 26.3%
- 2021: 24.5%
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.
The proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 7.1%, which is among the highest for similar areas and well above the national figure of 2.8%.
7.1%
Higher than 92% 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 Primrose Sands [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL615019/primrose-sands/topic/community