14.8% —
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lilliput · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lilliput
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A far higher share of people provide unpaid childcare in Lilliput than in the rest of the country. While 42.6% of residents care for children without pay, others are more likely to have served in the military than people in most similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.8% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the Victoria figure of 13.3% and about the same as the national rate.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Many more people here provide unpaid childcare than in Victoria or Australia, where the typical figure is 26.3%. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework are much fewer than in most areas, at 14.8%.
11.5% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.5%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
42.6% —
Higher than 96% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.5%
- 2021: 42.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.8% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 37.3%
- 2021: 14.8%
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.
Military service is much more common here than in most similar areas, with 5.2% of people having served in the Defence Force.
5.2%
Higher than 82% 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 Lilliput [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21503/lilliput/topic/community