20.4% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.3%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 20.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Tailem Bend · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Tailem Bend
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer in Tailem Bend than in most similar areas. While 20.4% of residents give their time to community groups, this is well above the national figure of 14.1%. It is a community where unpaid care and service are common, though volunteer rates have fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About one in five people here volunteer, a rate well above the South Australian figure of 17.0%. However, this level of community involvement has dropped by 9.9 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower than most areas at 17.5%, while 13.9% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is higher than most similar places. Around 22.7% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework a week.
13.9% ▲ +16.1%
Higher than 62% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.0%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
17.5% ▼ -33.8%
Lower than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 21.7%
- 2021: 17.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.7% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.4%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 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.
Defence service is common here, with 3.4% of people having served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
3.4%
Lower than 55% 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 Tailem Bend [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL415040/tailem-bend/topic/community