14.5% ▼ -28.4%
Lower than 67% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.3%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Teesdale · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Teesdale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A drop in volunteering defines the recent shift in community life for Teesdale, where only 14.5% of people now volunteer. While these figures have fallen since 2011, the area still sees a very high level of people providing unpaid care for children and the home.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
The proportion of people who volunteer in Teesdale fell 5.8 percentage points since 2011 to reach 14.5%. This is lower than most similar areas, though it remains a little above the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 30.6% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a figure far above the 20.1% seen in Victoria. This sits alongside a high rate of people caring for children unpaid, which is well above the national figure at 34.4%.
13.6% ▲ +21.6%
Higher than 57% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 9.2%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
34.4% ▲ +1.2%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 34.0%
- 2016: 36.3%
- 2021: 34.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.6% ▲ +11.8%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 22.3%
- 2021: 30.6%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.4% of the population. This is much lower than most similar areas, though it is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 79% 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 Teesdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL215082/teesdale/topic/community