9.5% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tamleugh · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tamleugh
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few things have changed in Tamleugh since 2011, but the area is now marked by a high rate of unpaid care. While very few people volunteer, over a fifth of the population provides unpaid care to others. This creates a community where home-based support is common, despite low formal volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.5% of people in Tamleugh volunteer, which is well below the Victorian figure of 13.3% and much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 21.4% of people providing care—well above the national figure of 11.9%. This is consistent with 33.3% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework, a rate far above the Australian average of 20.7%, though the proportion of people caring for children is much lower than most areas.
21.4% —
Higher than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.0%
- 2021: 21.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% —
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
33.3% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 27.7%
- 2021: 33.3%
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 Tamleugh has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Victorian rate of 2.0%.
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 Tamleugh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22437/tamleugh/topic/community