18.5% ▼ -18.6%
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gravelly Beach · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Gravelly Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteering has fallen since 2011 in Gravelly Beach, though the area remains more active than the national average. Around 18.5% of people now volunteer, and there is a notably high number of former Defence Force members living here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.5% of people volunteer, which is about the same as the Tasmanian figure and well above the Australian rate. However, this is down from 22.7% in 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is much lower here than in the rest of the state and nation, at 20.3%. Meanwhile, 13.6% of people provide some form of unpaid care, a figure that has risen since 2011.
13.6% ▲ +18.9%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 11.0%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▼ -6.0%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.5% ▼ -17.9%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 28.2%
- 2021: 22.5%
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.
A much higher share of people here have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 6.4%, this is well above the national figure of 2.8%.
6.4%
Higher than 89% 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 Gravelly Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621014/gravelly-beach/topic/community