16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 10.9%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lenaghan · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lenaghan
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people than usual are providing unpaid care in Lenaghan, where nearly half of the population helps look after children. This community shows a strong tendency toward unpaid support roles compared to both state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 16.7% of people giving their time, which is well above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A huge 43.3% of residents provide unpaid childcare, far above the national figure of 26.3%. This helps explain why unpaid care in general is much higher than elsewhere, reaching 20.0% of the population, although those doing 15 or more hours of housework are slightly fewer than the state average at 18.3%.
20.0% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.2%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
43.3% —
Higher than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 43.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.3% —
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 23.9%
- 2021: 18.3%
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 area has served in the Defence Force, which is a little below the Australian 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 Lenaghan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12311/lenaghan/topic/community