24.6% —
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.8%
- 2021: 24.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tallwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tallwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost a quarter of people in Tallwood volunteer, which is far more than the national figure. This community shows a strong tendency toward unpaid work, whether through volunteering or providing care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 24.6% of people helping out, a figure far above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far fewer people provide unpaid childcare compared to the state (15.4%), an overall 23.1% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is far above the national rate.
23.1% —
Higher than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.8%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
15.4% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.5% —
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.6%
- 2021: 18.5%
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.
Defence service is more common in Tallwood than in most areas, with 4.7% of people having served, slightly above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
4.7%
Higher than 78% 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 Tallwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13752/tallwood/topic/community