17.2% ▼ -25.8%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Fingal · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Fingal
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High rates of unpaid care and defence service set Fingal (L) apart from most similar areas. While volunteering is common here, the number of people providing unpaid support to others is much higher than the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.2% of people volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 23.1% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 16.5% of people providing such support, a figure well above the national average. This contrasts with child care, where only 17.2% of people provide unpaid help, which is much lower than most other areas.
16.5% ▲ +37.5%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 16.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.2% ▼ -50.5%
Lower than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.7%
- 2016: 35.9%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.5% ▲ +1.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.1%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 26.5%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 5.5% of the population. This is much higher than most similar areas and sits above both the Tasmanian and national figures.
5.5%
Higher than 83% 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 Fingal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622008/fingal/topic/community