18.2% —
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 18.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lemon Tree · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lemon Tree
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A striking 34.5% of people in Lemon Tree do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is far above the national figure, marking a place where domestic work and community contribution are highly prominent features of daily life.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.2% of people giving their time. This is well above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While far more people do heavy housework than the national average, Lemon Tree has a much lower proportion of people caring for children unpaid (16.4%) or providing general unpaid care (9.1%) compared to most areas.
9.1% —
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 9.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
16.4% —
Lower than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 16.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.5% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.3%
- 2021: 34.5%
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.
Serving in the Defence Force is very common in Lemon Tree. At 7.5%, this is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
7.5%
Higher than 90% 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 Lemon Tree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12308/lemon-tree/topic/community