22.9% ▼ -30.3%
Higher than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.9%
- 2016: 26.2%
- 2021: 22.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lurg · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lurg
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A much higher share of people volunteer in Lurg compared to most other similar areas. Roughly 22.9% of the community gives their time to help others, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%. This strong spirit of volunteering stands out as the main feature of local participation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.9% of residents helping out, a figure that is well above both the Victorian rate of 13.3% and the Australian average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 25% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework—well above the national figure of 20.7%—the share of people caring for children unpaid is well below the national average at 20.3%. General unpaid care is about the same as the rest of the country at 12.5%.
12.5% ▼ -16.2%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.9%
- 2016: 13.7%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
20.3% ▼ -15.0%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 23.0%
- 2021: 20.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.0% ▼ -28.9%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.2%
- 2016: 27.3%
- 2021: 25.0%
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.
Defence service is about the same as it is across Australia, with 2.6% of people having served in the Defence Force.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Lurg [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL21553/lurg/topic/community