20.7% ▼ -1.2%
Higher than 62% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 20.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tanawha · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tanawha
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Tanawha volunteer, making it a place where locals are far more likely to give their time than people across Australia. This strong spirit of helping out is mirrored in the home, where residents take on significantly more unpaid care and housework than the national average.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.7% of people volunteer here, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figure of 14.1%. This is higher than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is common in Tanawha, with 31.4% of people doing over 15 hours of housework, far above the national figure of 20.7%. Similarly, those caring for children unpaid are much more common here at 32.2% compared to 26.3% across Australia.
14.1% ▲ +17.7%
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.2% ▲ +10.5%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.2%
- 2016: 29.9%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.4% ▲ +14.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.5%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.5% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
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 Tanawha [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32736/tanawha/topic/community