5.6% ▼ -28.5%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lurnea · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lurnea
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 5.6% of people in Lurnea volunteer their time, which is among the lowest rates for similar areas. This low level of community involvement is mirrored in other forms of unpaid work, with many residents doing less unpaid care and housework than the national figure.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Lurnea has a very low volunteer rate of 5.6%, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 13.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Fewer people here perform unpaid care compared to most areas, with only 22.1% caring for children and 16.3% doing 15 or more hours of housework. However, the 11.8% of residents providing general unpaid care is about the same as the national figure.
11.8% ▼ -13.5%
Lower than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.6%
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 11.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
22.1% ▼ -15.9%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.2%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.3% ▼ -17.4%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.7%
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 16.3%
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.
Those who served in the Defence Force make up 0.9% of the population, which is a little below the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
0.9%
Lower than 68% 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 Lurnea [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL12431/lurnea/topic/community