19.2% ▼ -24.4%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tylden · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tylden
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly a third of residents in Tylden provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above both the state and national averages. The community shows a strong commitment to unpaid work, with high rates of volunteering and domestic duties. This profile reflects a population heavily engaged in family and community support.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 19.2% of people giving their time. This is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life in Tylden, where 32.2% of people care for children and 27.4% do over 15 hours of housework weekly—both figures are well above the state and national averages. Around 13.4% of residents provide other types of unpaid care, which is about the same as the Victorian average.
13.4% ▼ -5.1%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.1%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.2% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 30.1%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.4% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.8%
- 2016: 26.6%
- 2021: 27.4%
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.
About 2.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.5%
Lower than 53% 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 Tylden [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22597/tylden/topic/community