14.3% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 38.5%
- 2021: 14.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Traynors Lagoon · Suburb / Locality
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A huge 38.1% of people in Traynors Lagoon provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure. This high level of family care stands out in a place where other forms of community support and volunteering are more typical.
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.3% of residents volunteer, a figure that is about the same as the Victorian and Australian averages.
14.3% —
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While unpaid childcare is very common, no one in the area reports providing other types of unpaid care. Around 23.8% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
38.1% —
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
23.8% —
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Traynors Lagoon [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22575/traynors-lagoon/topic/community