17.6% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Taylors Arm · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Taylors Arm
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than five percentage points more people serve in the Defence Force in Taylors Arm than the New South Wales average. This small area shows a strong commitment to community and family support, with higher rates of volunteering and unpaid care than the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.6% of residents volunteer, which is well above both the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common here, with 26.9% of people doing over 15 hours of housework weekly, well above the national figure of 20.7%. This trend extends to general unpaid care, which is higher than most areas at 14.8%.
14.8% ▲ +0.9%
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.7%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▲ +20.8%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.9% ▼ -13.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 26.9%
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.
The area has one of the highest proportions of Defence Force veterans, with 7.6% of people having served, which is well above the state average of 2.3%.
7.6%
Higher than 90% 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 Taylors Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13791/taylors-arm/topic/community