59.1% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 59.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tarrenlea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tarrenlea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge gap exists between Tarrenlea and the rest of the country, where 59.1% of people volunteer. This level of community involvement is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and among the highest for similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly 60% of residents in Tarrenlea volunteer, which is 45 points higher than the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 22.7% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, no one in the area provides unpaid care or looks after children unpaid. These figures are far below both the state and national averages.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 33.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% —
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 22.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Tarrenlea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22461/tarrenlea/topic/community