20.4% —
Higher than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
ACT Remainder - Tuggeranong · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in ACT Remainder - Tuggeranong
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in ACT Remainder - Tuggeranong now volunteer, making it a highly active area for community work. While unpaid care for others is much less common here than in the rest of the territory, a large number of residents spend significant time on housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20.4% of people helping out. This is a little above the ACT figure of 18.4% and well above the national rate of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 28.6% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%. In contrast, the 6.1% of people providing unpaid care is much lower than most areas and well below the territory average.
6.1% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.5% —
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 24.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
28.6% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 28.6%
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.
No one in this area reported serving in the Defence Force, which is well below the 6.0% seen across the ACT.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 ACT Remainder - Tuggeranong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80015/act-remainder-tuggeranong/topic/community