6.8% —
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 43.6%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tulloona · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tulloona
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high rate of military service marks the community of Tulloona, where 8.6% of people have served in the Defence Force. This is a striking contrast to other areas, while local involvement in volunteering and unpaid care is much lower than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 6.8% of people here volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and well below the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very uncommon here; only 5.1% of people provide unpaid care, and no one reported caring for children unpaid. Just 6.8% do 15 or more hours of housework, which is far below the national figure of 20.7%.
5.1% —
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.8%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
6.8% —
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.8%
- 2021: 6.8%
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 proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is 8.6%, a figure that is well above both the New South Wales average of 2.3% and the national average of 2.8%.
8.6%
Higher than 93% 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 Tulloona [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13977/tulloona/topic/community