30.0% ▼ -14.6%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.1%
- 2016: 34.6%
- 2021: 30.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Laang · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Laang
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far more people in Laang give their time to others than in most similar areas. Around 30% of residents are volunteers, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 14.1%. This strong spirit of helping others defines the local community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 30% of people pitching in. This is far above the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 19% of people provide unpaid childcare—well below the national figure of 26.3%—many others keep up the home. Around 32% do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, which is far above the 20.7% average for Australia.
14.0% ▲ +32.2%
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.6%
- 2016: 6.2%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.0% ▼ -40.2%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.8%
- 2016: 32.1%
- 2021: 19.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
32.0% ▲ +8.8%
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.4%
- 2016: 18.5%
- 2021: 32.0%
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 figures for Victoria and Australia.
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 Laang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21418/laang/topic/community