45.2% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tocal · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tocal
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly half of all people in Tocal give their time to volunteering, creating a community with an exceptionally high level of local activity. This stands in stark contrast to other care-related tasks, as the area has very few people performing unpaid domestic or care work.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
At 45.2%, the share of volunteers is among the highest for similar areas and is far above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very rare here, with 0.0% of people providing unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework. Only 7.1% of residents care for children unpaid, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
7.1% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Tocal has served in the Defence Force, a result that is a little below the New South Wales average of 2.3%.
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 Tocal [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13902/tocal/topic/community