13.5% ▼ -16.2%
Lower than 59% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 16.1%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lithgow · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Community Participation in Lithgow
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people in Lithgow provide unpaid childcare compared to other areas, with only 22% doing so. While some forms of community support remain steady, other types of unpaid work have fallen over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.5% of people volunteer, which is around the middle for similar areas and roughly the same as the New South Wales and national figures. This rate has fallen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
More people here provide unpaid care or do significant housework than in most areas, though the 22.2% who spend 15 or more hours on housework has dropped since 2011. This stands in contrast to childcare, where Lithgow is well below the national figure at 22%.
12.9% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 61% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.5%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.0% ▼ -16.4%
Lower than 78% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
22.2% ▼ -11.1%
Higher than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 25.0%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 22.2%
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.
Around 2.9% of the population have served in the Defence Force, a figure that is about the same as the totals for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.9%
Higher than 51% of statistical area 2 (sa2) 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 Lithgow [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/103031070/lithgow/topic/community