19.3% ▼ -38.8%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.5%
- 2016: 29.5%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tolmie · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tolmie
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people volunteer in Tolmie than in the state average, with 19.3% of residents giving their time. This community spirit extends to military service and homely duties, though it has a much lower rate of unpaid childcare than most areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Nearly one in five people volunteer here, a figure that is well above both the Victorian average of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While childcare is much lower than most areas at 17.1%, many more people do heavy housework; 31.4% spend 15 or more hours a week on chores, which is far above the 20.7% national average.
10.8% ▼ -1.3%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.0%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 10.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.1% ▼ -25.9%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 17.9%
- 2021: 17.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.4% ▲ +7.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 31.4%
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.
A high 7.8% of residents have served in the Defence Force, a rate that is well above the 2.8% seen across Australia.
7.8%
Higher than 91% 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 Tolmie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22526/tolmie/topic/community