18.8% ▼ -9.9%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.9%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 18.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Upper Lansdowne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Upper Lansdowne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people perform unpaid chores in Upper Lansdowne than in most other areas, with 32.1% spending 15 or more hours a week on housework. This high level of home-based work is a key feature of the community's daily life. Other activities like volunteering are also common here compared to the rest of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is quite common in Upper Lansdowne, where 18.8% of people help out. This is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many more people provide unpaid care here than in most areas, with 17.7% helping out. While unpaid housework is far above the state average, the proportion of people caring for children is well below the national figure at 21.5%.
17.7% ▼ -4.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.5%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.5% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.1%
- 2016: 22.2%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.1% ▼ -15.1%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.8%
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 32.1%
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.
About 2.4% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the figures for both New South Wales and Australia.
2.4%
Lower than 54% 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 Upper Lansdowne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL14051/upper-lansdowne/topic/community