22.9% ▲ +36.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.8%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tatham · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tatham
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 23% of people in Tatham spend their spare time volunteering, a figure well above the national average. This high level of community involvement defines daily life here, where residents are far more likely to give their time to others than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common in Tatham, with 22.9% of residents helping out, which is well above the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a significant part of local life; 14.9% of people provide unpaid care and 28.7% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both well above the state and national figures. However, the 20.2% of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national average of 26.3%.
14.9% ▲ +24.4%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.2% ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.8%
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.7% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 28.9%
- 2021: 28.7%
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 Tatham has 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 Tatham [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13788/tatham/topic/community