11.4% ▼ -47.4%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lang Lang · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lang Lang
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure, 32.7% of people in Lang Lang provide unpaid childcare. This high level of family care is the standout feature of the area's community life, though other forms of volunteering and service are less common.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.4% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare is very high at 32.7%, those providing general unpaid care are at 11.7%, which is lower than most areas. Around 24.2% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure well above the Victorian average.
11.7% ▼ -17.7%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
32.7% ▲ +11.4%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 32.4%
- 2021: 32.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.2% ▼ -8.3%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 24.2%
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 2.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for its level and about the same as the Victorian figure.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Lang Lang [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21459/lang-lang/topic/community