20.0% ▼ -14.7%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lawrence · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lawrence
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One in five people in Lawrence volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This high level of community spirit is seen alongside a strong tradition of military service and a high number of residents providing unpaid care.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 20% of the population helping out, a figure well above the 13% seen across New South Wales.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very frequent, as 31.2% of people do 15 or more hours of housework and 15.3% provide unpaid care, both far above national levels. However, those caring for children unpaid are much fewer here at 21% compared to 26.3% across Australia.
15.3% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.5%
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 15.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.0% ▼ -4.1%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
31.2% ▼ -9.6%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 34.5%
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 31.2%
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.
Military service is more common in Lawrence than in most areas, with 5% of residents having served in the Defence Force.
5.0%
Higher than 80% 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 Lawrence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12297/lawrence/topic/community