14.3% ▼ -20.8%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 18.0%
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tweed · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Tweed
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people have volunteered their time in Tweed since 2011, where the rate fell by 3.8 percentage points to 14.3%. While this is lower than most similar areas, it remains slightly above the New South Wales figure. The area shows a strong tendency toward unpaid care and military service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.3% of people volunteer, which is about the same as the national figure of 14.1%. This is a drop from 2011, when 18.0% of residents volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is more common here than in most areas, with 13.3% of people helping out. This sits slightly above the state and national figures, even though the number of people caring for children unpaid fell slightly since 2011 to 24.3%.
13.3% ▲ +8.9%
Higher than 71% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.3% ▼ -5.7%
Lower than 55% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.3% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 53% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 25.3%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 22.3%
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.
A higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 3.6%, this is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
3.6%
Higher than 72% of council (lga) 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 Tweed [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA17550/tweed/topic/community