14.1% —
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lang Lang East · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lang Lang East
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
High levels of unpaid home and family work shape daily life in Lang Lang East. While volunteering is common, the most striking feature is that far more people here provide unpaid care and housework compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.1% of people volunteer, a figure that is about the same as both the Victorian and national averages.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Providing unpaid care is very common here, with 17.9% of people doing so, well above the national figure of 11.9%. This includes a much higher proportion of people caring for children (30.8%) and a huge 35.9% who do 15 or more hours of housework a week, which is far above the 20.7% seen across Australia.
17.9% —
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 17.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.8% —
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.6%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.9% —
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 35.9%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.8% of the population, which is higher than in most similar areas and a little above the national average of 2.8%.
3.8%
Higher than 69% 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 East [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21460/lang-lang-east/topic/community