18.4% —
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.4%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tongarra · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tongarra
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Tongarra provide unpaid care, which is among the highest rates for similar areas. This spirit of helping others extends to community work, as 18.4% of residents volunteer their time.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.4% of people giving their time. 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.
Care roles are very common, with 20.8% providing unpaid care—well above the national figure of 11.9%. While 32.0% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a much lower 17.6% care for children unpaid, which is well below the Australian average of 26.3%.
20.8% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 20.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.6% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 17.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.0% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 32.0%
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 the area has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below the 2.8% seen across Australia.
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 Tongarra [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13918/tongarra/topic/community