70.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tampu · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tampu
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Seven out of ten people volunteer in Tampu, making it one of the most active areas for community work. This strong spirit of helping others defines daily life here, with far more residents pitching in than in the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is incredibly common at 70%, which is far above the Western Australian figure of 15.9% and the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is a major part of life here, with 45% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework and 30% providing unpaid care, both figures far above the national average. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is 20%, which is well below the 26.3% seen across Australia.
30.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
45.0% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Tampu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51432/tampu/topic/community