19.3% ▼ -21.6%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.6%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tatton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tatton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher levels of community involvement set Tatton apart from most similar areas. This is particularly visible in the high number of people providing unpaid care and a strong history of military service. Roughly one in five residents also spends their time volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.3% of people helping out. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a major feature of the area, as 33.3% of people care for children, which is much higher than most areas. While 13.8% provide other unpaid care, about 20.9% do 15 or more hours of housework, a figure similar to the national average.
13.8% ▲ +48.8%
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% ▼ -7.8%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.1%
- 2016: 36.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.9% ▼ -12.9%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 20.9%
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.
Military service is much more common in Tatton than in most similar places. About 5.8% of residents have served in the Defence Force, well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
5.8%
Higher than 86% 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 Tatton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13790/tatton/topic/community