21.5% ▲ +69.4%
Higher than 76% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.7%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tyalgum · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Tyalgum
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over one in five people in Tyalgum volunteer, a rate that is much higher than most similar areas. This strong community spirit is paired with a significant rise in the number of people providing unpaid care for others. Overall, the area shows a growing trend of residents giving their time to help others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering has risen 8.8 percentage points since 2011 to reach 21.5%. This is well above the New South Wales figure of 13% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is much more common here than in most areas, with 16.3% of people helping out. While those caring for children are well below the national figure at 19.8%, the number of people doing 15 or more hours of housework has jumped 17 points since 2011.
16.3% ▲ +667.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.1%
- 2016: 12.2%
- 2021: 16.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.8% ▲ +37.3%
Lower than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 19.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▲ +307.1%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 22.7%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force, at 2.3%. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.3%
Lower than 81% 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 Tyalgum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL122142/tyalgum/topic/community