13.7% ▼ -19.0%
Lower than 57% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tweed · State Electorate
Community Participation in Tweed
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Tweed is shaped by a strong commitment to helping others, with 13.2% of people providing unpaid care. This is higher than the national figure and suggests a community where supporting family and neighbours is common. While volunteering has dipped over the last decade, the area maintains a high number of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.7% of people in Tweed volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and roughly the same as the state and national figures. This is a drop from 2011, when 17.0% of residents volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here provide unpaid care than in most other areas, with 13.2% of residents helping out. This includes 22.0% who spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, though the number of people caring for children is a little below the national figure at 24.3%.
13.2% ▲ +9.9%
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.3% ▼ -4.1%
Lower than 72% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 25.4%
- 2016: 25.4%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.0% ▼ -11.0%
Higher than 65% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 24.7%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 22.0%
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 proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas. At 3.8%, this is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.8%
Higher than 74% of state electorate 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 Tweed [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10084/tweed/topic/community