11.9% ▼ -32.7%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 11.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Taree · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Taree
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A higher than usual 3.7% of people in Taree have served in the Defence Force. This community shows a strong trend of providing unpaid care, though volunteering rates are lower than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.9% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While the 14.4% of people providing unpaid care is higher than most areas, the proportion of those caring for children unpaid is well below the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. About 21.4% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is about the same as the national rate.
14.4% ▲ +3.6%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.8% ▼ -16.3%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.9%
- 2016: 23.4%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.4% ▼ -18.9%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 21.4%
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, a figure that is higher than most areas and a little above the state average of 2.3%.
3.7%
Higher than 67% 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 Taree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13779/taree/topic/community