11.5% ▼ -57.7%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 27.3%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 11.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lonsdale · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lonsdale
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a quarter of people in Lonsdale provide unpaid care, a figure far above the national average. This suggests that supporting others is a significant part of daily life for many residents, although local volunteering rates are quite low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.5% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the South Australian figure of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is very common, with 26.9% of people providing support—far above the national figure of 11.9%. This includes 30.8% of residents doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, though no one reported caring for children unpaid.
26.9% ▲ +106.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 26.9%
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: 14.3%
- 2016: 16.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.8% ▼ -17.9%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 45.8%
- 2021: 30.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
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 Lonsdale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40779/lonsdale/topic/community