22.9% ▼ -11.8%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tumbarumba · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tumbarumba
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a quarter of residents in Tumbarumba volunteer, making it a place where people are much more active in their community than in most other areas. This strong spirit of helping out is seen in both formal volunteering and the high number of people providing unpaid care for others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 22.9% of people helping out. 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.
Providing unpaid care is much more common than in most areas, with 15.4% of residents doing so. This is well above the national figure of 11.9%, while 25.2% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly.
15.4% ▲ +23.8%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 15.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.8% ▼ -2.1%
Lower than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.3%
- 2016: 25.0%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.2% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 24.4%
- 2021: 25.2%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas. About 3.4% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales.
3.4%
Higher than 63% 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 Tumbarumba [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13979/tumbarumba/topic/community