20.2% ▼ -5.3%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.3%
- 2016: 22.4%
- 2021: 20.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lindisfarne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lindisfarne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than one in five people in Lindisfarne give their time to volunteering, making it a place with high community involvement. This spirit of service is seen in both the high number of local volunteers and a strong presence of former Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 20.2% of residents volunteer, which is higher than most areas and well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is about the same as the state average at 25.2%, while 12.9% of people provide other forms of unpaid care. However, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are much fewer than in most areas.
12.9% ▲ +9.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 12.0%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.2% ▼ -6.4%
Lower than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 25.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.0% ▼ -18.4%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 19.0%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 5.8% of the population, which is much higher than most areas and a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
5.8%
Higher than 86% 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 Lindisfarne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60342/lindisfarne/topic/community