17.0% ▼ -0.9%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 17.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tighes Hill · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tighes Hill
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people in Tighes Hill are volunteering than in the typical Australian suburb. About 17% of residents give their time to help others, which is well above the New South Wales figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17% of people pitching in. This is a little above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 25.9% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is about the same as the national figure. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are much lower than most areas, at 17.9%.
11.1% ▼ -2.5%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 10.5%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.9% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 25.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.9% ▼ -10.9%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 19.0%
- 2021: 17.9%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 2.9% of the population. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 55% 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 Tighes Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13880/tighes-hill/topic/community