13.2% ▼ -18.8%
Lower than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.2%
- 2016: 16.4%
- 2021: 13.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part) · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part)
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much lower rates of volunteering mark the community profile of Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part), where only 13.2% of people give their time to others. While some areas of care are common, the local rate of volunteering has fallen by 3.1 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 13.2% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the New South Wales and national rates, though it has dropped since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 13.1% of people provide unpaid care, a little above the figures for New South Wales and Australia. However, those caring for children unpaid (23.2%) and those doing over 15 hours of housework (21.0%) are both lower than the national average.
13.1% ▲ +10.4%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 11.9%
- 2021: 13.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.2% ▼ -3.5%
Lower than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 23.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.0% ▼ -11.5%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 21.0%
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 proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force. At 3.9%, this is a little above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales and the 2.8% national figure.
3.9%
Higher than 60% of urban centre 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 Gold Coast - Tweed Heads (Tweed Heads Part) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102003/gold-coast-tweed-heads/topic/community