21.8% ▼ -22.5%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.1%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 21.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tyagarah · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tyagarah
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher proportion of people volunteer in Tyagarah compared to the rest of the country. About 21.8% of residents give their time to help others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This community shows a strong leaning toward unpaid service despite having very few people in formal defence roles.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.8% of people helping out, which is well above the 13.0% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common than in most areas. Only 8.9% of people care for children unpaid, which is far below the national figure of 26.3%, and just 14.5% do 15 or more hours of housework a week.
8.9% ▲ +27.1%
Lower than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
8.9% ▼ -59.9%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.3%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.5% ▼ -58.7%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 14.5%
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 community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the state and national rates.
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 Tyagarah [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14011/tyagarah/topic/community