12.3% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 69% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tweed Heads · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Community Participation in Tweed Heads
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Tweed Heads involves a strong presence of veterans and varying levels of unpaid help at home. While a higher number of people have served in the military here than in most similar areas, the proportion of residents volunteering in the community has dropped over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 12.3% of people volunteer here, which is lower than most areas. This figure has fallen by 2.9 percentage points since 2011 and sits a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 20.5%, which is well below the national figure of 26.3%. Meanwhile, the 12.8% of people providing general unpaid care is a little above the New South Wales average.
12.8% ▲ +10.3%
Higher than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.5% ▼ -5.0%
Lower than 85% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 20.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.3% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 58% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 22.8%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 20.3%
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 3.7% of the population. This is higher than most similar areas and a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.7%
Higher than 73% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/112031254/tweed-heads/topic/community