18.5% ▼ -28.1%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tapitallee · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tapitallee
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Tapitallee shows far higher levels of community and household contribution than most similar areas. Residents are much more likely to provide unpaid care and a higher proportion have served in the Defence Force. Roughly 18.5% of people here volunteer, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteer rates in Tapitallee are well above the Australian average of 14.1%, with 18.5% of residents giving their time to others.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 34.5% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework—a figure far above the national average of 20.7%. This trend extends to general unpaid care (15%) and childcare (27.2%), both of which are higher than in most areas.
15.0% ▼ -0.4%
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.0%
- 2016: 14.9%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.2% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.6%
- 2016: 26.7%
- 2021: 27.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.5% ▲ +11.9%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 34.5%
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.
A much higher proportion of people in Tapitallee have served in the Defence Force compared to other areas, with 6.2% of the population having served, well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
6.2%
Higher than 87% 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 Tapitallee [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13770/tapitallee/topic/community