18.5% ▼ -21.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.4%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lue · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lue
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Lue volunteer their time, a rate well above the national figure. This high level of community spirit is a standout feature for the area, with 18.5% of residents giving their time to help others.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 18.5% of people pitching in, which is 4.4 percentage points higher than the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for others is much lower than most areas at 7.5%, and the rate of people caring for children is also well below the national figure at 23.1%. Meanwhile, 23.7% of residents do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure.
7.5% ▼ -35.6%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 14.3%
- 2021: 7.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% ▼ -9.9%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 17.5%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.7% ▼ -15.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.9%
- 2016: 27.9%
- 2021: 23.7%
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.
Defence service is more common in Lue than in most similar areas, with 4.0% of the population having served, which is a little above the New South Wales rate of 2.3%.
4.0%
Higher than 71% 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 Lue [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12429/lue/topic/community