12.6% ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.5%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tweed Heads · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tweed Heads
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid child care in Tweed Heads than across the state. While many residents contribute through military service, other forms of community involvement and household help are less common here than in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.6% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and slightly below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is well below the state and national figures, with only 17.4% of people providing this help. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are much lower than in most areas, though 12.6% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the national figure.
12.6% ▲ +10.4%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.4% ▼ -1.0%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.6%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.7% ▼ -13.8%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 19.4%
- 2021: 18.7%
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 areas, with 4.2% of people having served in the Defence Force, a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
4.2%
Higher than 74% 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 Tweed Heads [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14002/tweed-heads/topic/community