28.6% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 50.9%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tempy · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tempy
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 29% of people in Tempy volunteer their time, making this a place where community contribution is far more common than in most other areas. This spirit of helping out extends into the home, where residents provide much more unpaid care and housework than the state or national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 28.6% of people pitching in. This is far above the 13.3% seen in Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Daily life involves a lot of unpaid work, with 35.7% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly. This is far above the national figure of 20.7%, alongside much higher rates of people providing unpaid care (19.0%) and caring for children (33.3%).
19.0% —
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.6%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.7% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 35.7%
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.
No one in the area 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 Tempy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22485/tempy/topic/community