22.2% ▲ +18.1%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.8%
- 2021: 22.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lakefield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lakefield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people volunteer in Lakefield than in most similar areas. While 22.2% of residents give their time to help others, the area has an unusually low rate of unpaid caregiving and housework.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 22.2% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Queensland and national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is almost non-existent here; 0.0% of residents provide unpaid care or do 15 or more hours of housework, which is far below the national averages.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2021: 0.0%
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.
No one in Lakefield has served in the Defence Force, a figure that is lower than most areas and well below the Queensland average of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Lakefield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31622/lakefield/topic/community