37.9% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tahlee · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tahlee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer in Tahlee than in almost any similar area. About 38% of residents give their time to others, which is far above the national figure of 14.1%. This strong community spirit exists alongside a very low rate of unpaid care for children or others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is exceptionally common here, with 37.9% of people helping out, far above the New South Wales rate of 13%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Very few people provide unpaid care for children or others, with both figures at 0.0%, which is far below the national average. However, more people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework (27.6%) compared to the 20.7% across Australia.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.6% —
Higher than 69% 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 residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
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 Tahlee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13741/tahlee/topic/community