13.7% ▼ -57.7%
Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 32.4%
- 2016: 15.0%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tullamore · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Tullamore
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One in four people in Tullamore provide unpaid childcare, making it the most common form of community contribution in the area. While child care is steady, other forms of unpaid work and volunteering have dropped since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has fallen sharply in Tullamore, dropping 19 percentage points since 2011 to 13.7%. This is lower than most similar areas, though it remains about the same as the New South Wales figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is steady at 25%, which is around the middle for its level. Other forms of unpaid work have fallen, with those doing 15 or more hours of housework dropping 11 points since 2011 to 19.6%.
8.9% ▼ -37.8%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.2%
- 2016: 16.1%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.6% ▼ -36.5%
Lower than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.0%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 19.6%
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 Tullamore has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is a little below both the New South Wales and national figures.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Tullamore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122140/tullamore/topic/community