22.0% ▲ +12.3%
Higher than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 30.2%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lagoon Grass · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lagoon Grass
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Giving back and supporting family are central to daily life in Lagoon Grass. The area is defined by a huge proportion of residents providing unpaid care for children and a strong culture of volunteering.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22% of people helping out, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Family support is a major feature of the area, where 46.3% of people provide unpaid childcare—far above the national figure of 26.3%. This high level of family care is consistent with the 34.1% of residents who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, a figure far above the Australian average.
14.6% ▲ +109.8%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 14.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
46.3% ▲ +51.5%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 23.3%
- 2021: 46.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.1% ▼ -12.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 38.8%
- 2016: 48.8%
- 2021: 34.1%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the national figure of 2.8%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 Lagoon Grass [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12244/lagoon-grass/topic/community