0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tanami · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tanami
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Zero percent of people volunteer in Tanami, the lowest rate seen across similar areas. This sparse region shows very low levels of unpaid care and community work compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
No one in the area is recorded as a volunteer, which is far below the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much lower than typical, with only 9.9% of people caring for children and 2.8% providing any unpaid care, both well below the national figures.
2.8% ▼ -69.5%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
9.9% ▼ -58.1%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 28.1%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
7.0% ▲ +2.1%
Lower than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 7.0%
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 higher than usual 4.2% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.2%
Higher than 73% 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 Tanami [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70248/tanami/topic/community