32.9% ▼ -22.0%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.1%
- 2016: 36.0%
- 2021: 32.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Laharum · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Laharum
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Roughly a third of residents in Laharum volunteer their time, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement stands out as the defining feature of the area's social life. Other forms of unpaid work and service are generally less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common, with 32.9% of people helping out. This is far above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 24.3% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—only 9.3% provide unpaid care, which is much lower than most areas.
9.3% ▼ -8.2%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 9.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.6% ▲ +43.9%
Lower than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 16.4%
- 2016: 34.0%
- 2021: 23.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.3% ▼ -24.6%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.2%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 24.3%
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.
No one in the community has served in the Defence Force, a rate a little below the 2.8% seen across 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 Laharum [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21426/laharum/topic/community