22.3% ▲ +16.6%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 31.0%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Clifton Beach · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Clifton Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people pitch in to help others in Clifton Beach than in the rest of the state. This is a community where nearly a quarter of residents volunteer, a figure that has grown since 2011. It is also an area where a very high number of people provide unpaid care for children.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.3% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and the national rate of 14.1%. This level of community involvement has risen by 3.2 percentage points over the last decade.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is very common here, with 38.7% of people providing this support—far above the national figure of 26.3%. Housework loads are also higher than usual, while the 12.1% who provide other types of unpaid care are about the same as the rest of Australia.
12.1% ▲ +15.4%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.7% ▲ +35.7%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 23.1%
- 2021: 38.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.7% ▼ -3.0%
Higher than 79% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 27.7%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.9%. This is lower than in most similar areas and a little below the Tasmanian average of 4.0%.
2.9%
Lower than 69% 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 Clifton Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621006/clifton-beach/topic/community