14.3% ▼ -19.7%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.8%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lemnos · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lemnos
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Lemnos has remained steady over the last decade, with about 14.3% of residents volunteering. This level of participation is about the same as the figures for Victoria and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates sit at 14.3%, which is lower than most similar areas but matches the national and state figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 26.2% of people provide unpaid childcare, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are much less common here than in most areas, at 16.7%. This is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
10.5% ▼ -6.1%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.4%
- 2021: 10.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.2% ▲ +18.6%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.1%
- 2016: 28.7%
- 2021: 26.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.7% ▼ -35.2%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 21.3%
- 2021: 16.7%
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 1.4% of the population, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.4%
Lower than 64% 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 Lemnos [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21487/lemnos/topic/community