14.8% ▼ -22.2%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lugarno · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lugarno
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly 26.5% of people in Lugarno do at least 15 hours of unpaid housework a week. This is well above the figures for both New South Wales and Australia. While many residents help out at home, a smaller number of people engage in formal volunteering compared to other similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates in Lugarno are lower than in most similar areas. At 14.8%, the proportion of volunteers is about the same as the national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is common here, with 14.5% of people providing care, which is a little above the state and national figures. Around 24.8% of residents provide unpaid childcare, a result that sits about the same as the state average.
14.5% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.0%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.8% ▼ -18.5%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.5%
- 2016: 29.8%
- 2021: 24.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.5% ▼ -1.4%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 26.5%
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.
Defence service is typical for the region, with 2.1% of the population having served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.1%
Lower 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 Lugarno [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12430/lugarno/topic/community