9.9% ▼ -55.8%
Lower than 89% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tahmoor · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Tahmoor
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Tahmoor provide unpaid childcare, making it a place where family care is a major part of daily life. While many residents focus on the home, the proportion of people volunteering for the community has dropped sharply over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 9.9% of residents volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This is a significant drop from 2011, when 22.5% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care for children is very common here, with 30.3% of people doing this unpaid work, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 25.3%. Meanwhile, 12.1% of people provide other forms of unpaid care, a rate about the same as the rest of the country.
12.1% ▼ -3.6%
Lower than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.7%
- 2016: 18.0%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.1% ▼ -8.1%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 25.3%
- 2021: 23.1%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is much lower than most similar areas and is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.4%
Lower than 78% 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 Tahmoor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL114032/tahmoor/topic/community