16.6% ▼ -23.1%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 16.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Ridgley · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Ridgley
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people have volunteered in Ridgley since 2011, but child care has increased. While 16.6% of the community now volunteer, the share of people providing unpaid childcare has risen to 31.6%.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Ridgley fell by 5.0 percentage points since 2011. At 16.6%, this is a little below the Tasmanian figure of 18.0%, but a little above the own national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Much higher than most areas, 31.6% of people provide unpaid childcare, a figure that rose 4.1 percentage points since 2011. Similarly, 25.3% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is well above the 20.7% national figure.
11.1% ▼ -19.9%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 16.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.6% ▲ +14.9%
Higher than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 31.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.3% ▼ -2.0%
Higher than 61% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 27.4%
- 2021: 25.3%
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 4.2% of the population. This is higher than most areas and a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.2%
Higher than 64% 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 Ridgley [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL622020/ridgley/topic/community