33.7% ▲ +65.1%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.4%
- 2016: 26.8%
- 2021: 33.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fern Tree · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Fern Tree
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people pitch in to help others in Fern Tree (L) than in most similar areas. This is seen most clearly in the high number of volunteers and those providing unpaid care. Since 2011, the proportion of people volunteering has climbed steeply to 33.7%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in three people here volunteer, which is far above the Tasmanian figure of 18% and the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common, with 32.1% of people caring for children, a figure well above the national average. This is consistent with 15.3% of the population providing some form of unpaid care, which is much higher than most areas.
15.3% ▲ +27.3%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.1% ▲ +50.8%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 32.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -13.8%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 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.
A higher than usual share of residents have served in the Defence Force, with 4.3% of the population having this experience.
4.3%
Higher than 67% 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 Fern Tree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621012/fern-tree/topic/community