17.9% ▼ -35.1%
Higher than 56% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.6%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Scamander · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Scamander
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Scamander involves a high own-home workload, though community volunteering has dropped. While 17.9% of residents volunteer—a figure well above the national average—this is down nearly 10 percentage points from 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.9% of people volunteer here, which is about the same as the Tasmanian average and well above the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A much higher share of residents than most areas do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, at 26.9%. However, the 21.6% who provide unpaid childcare is well below both the state and national figures.
13.0% ▼ -15.3%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 15.3%
- 2016: 11.2%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% ▼ -10.7%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 27.5%
- 2021: 26.9%
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.
Around 3.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Tasmania and Australia.
3.1%
Lower than 62% 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 Scamander [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL621024/scamander/topic/community