19.1% ▼ -27.3%
Higher than 59% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.9%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Liverpool Plains · Council (LGA)
Community Participation in Liverpool Plains
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About the same as similar areas, Liverpool Plains has a community where many people contribute their time to others. While volunteering has dropped over the last decade, 19.1% of residents still give their time to help others, which is well above the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering sits at 19.1%, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%. However, this is a drop from 2011, when 26.3% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here provide unpaid care or do significant housework than in most areas. While only 22.3% look after children unpaid—which is well below the Australian figure—13.4% provide other types of unpaid care.
13.4% ▲ +4.8%
Higher than 73% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.3% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 72% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 24.4%
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 22.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.1% ▼ -13.7%
Higher than 69% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 24.1%
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 2.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as both the state and national averages.
2.8%
Lower than 59% of council (lga) 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 Liverpool Plains [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA14920/liverpool-plains/topic/community