36.0% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.7%
- 2021: 36.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tuntable Creek · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tuntable Creek
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Tuntable Creek volunteer, a rate far above the national figure. This high level of community involvement is matched by a strong trend of people taking on unpaid work and care roles at home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 36.0% of residents helping out, which is far above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents are much more likely to do unpaid work than people in most other areas. This includes 15.1% providing unpaid care and 31.4% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is far above the national figure.
15.1% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 15.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.3% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 25.6%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.4% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.4%
- 2021: 31.4%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the state and national averages.
2.4%
Lower 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 Tuntable Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL13989/tuntable-creek/topic/community