28.6% ▲ +10.0%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 28.6%
- 2021: 28.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tharwa · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Tharwa
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 32% of people in Tharwa provide unpaid care, reflecting a community with very high levels of local support. This area is remarkably active, with far more residents volunteering and caring for others than is typical across the territory or the nation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is much more common here than in most other areas. About 28.6% of residents volunteer, which is far above the Australian Capital Territory figure of 18.4%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is among the highest in the country, with 31.7% of people in this role—far above the 11.9% national figure. This includes 31.7% of residents caring for children unpaid, and 25.4% who do 15 or more hours of housework a week.
31.7% ▲ +200.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.7% ▲ +1.4%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 31.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.4% ▲ +7.9%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.5%
- 2016: 25.7%
- 2021: 25.4%
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.
No one in Tharwa has served in the Defence Force. This is lower than most areas and well below the 6% seen across the Australian Capital Territory.
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 Tharwa [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL80123/tharwa/topic/community