26.1% —
Higher than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Mount Tenandra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Mount Tenandra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a quarter of people in Mount Tenandra volunteer their time, a figure far above the national average. This level of community involvement is one of the most striking features of the area, where residents are much more likely to give their time for free than in most other places.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 26.1% of residents are volunteers, which is far above the 13% seen in New South Wales and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 17.4% of people provide unpaid childcare—well below the national figure—the area has one of the highest rates of general unpaid care, with 21.7% of people providing support, far above the 11.9% Australian average.
21.7% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% —
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.7% —
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
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.
No one in the area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national rates of around 2% to 3%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Mount Tenandra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12804/mount-tenandra/topic/community