20.7% ▼ -20.0%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.8%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tambo Upper · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tambo Upper
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Tambo Upper stands out from most similar areas for its high levels of community and household contribution. More than one in five residents volunteer their time, and a significantly higher share of the population handles a heavy load of unpaid housework compared to the national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 20.7% of people helping out, which is well above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the Australian figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 28.9% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure well above the national average of 20.7%. While 27.8% provide unpaid childcare, only 10.5% provide other unpaid care, which is a little below the national rate of 11.9%.
10.5% ▼ -20.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.2%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
27.8% ▲ +5.5%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 25.8%
- 2021: 27.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.9% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.7%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 28.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 4.5% of the population, which is much higher than in most similar areas and above the national figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Tambo Upper [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22433/tambo-upper/topic/community