8.1% ▼ -36.4%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 11.7%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Haven · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Haven
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer residents in Lake Haven spend their spare time volunteering compared to other areas. Only 8.1% of people here volunteer, which is well below the national figure of 14.1%. This suggests community involvement takes different forms here than in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates are among the lowest for areas of this size, with only 8.1% of residents helping out. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is much lower than most areas at 19.3%, while 13.4% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the national figure. About 21.5% of residents do 15 or more hours of housework a week, a rate about the same as the rest of Australia.
13.4% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.3% ▼ -11.7%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.5% ▼ -4.9%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.6%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 21.5%
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.
A total of 3.1% of people have served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
3.1%
Higher than 58% 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 Lake Haven [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12255/lake-haven/topic/community