21.7% —
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 18.2%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lemont · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lemont
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 60% of people in Lemont provide unpaid childcare, which is far above the national figure. This high level of family care is mirrored in other areas of community life, where residents are much more likely to volunteer or handle heavy housework than people in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.7% of residents giving their time. This is well above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0% and the Australian average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common in Lemont, with 60.9% of people caring for children, a figure far above the 26.3% seen nationally. This is consistent with other home duties, as 34.8% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly and 17.4% provide general unpaid care, both of which are well above state and national levels.
17.4% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 17.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
60.9% —
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 31.8%
- 2021: 60.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
34.8% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.6%
- 2021: 34.8%
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 Lemont [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60330/lemont/topic/community