22.4% —
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 22.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lunawanna · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lunawanna
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure, 22.4% of people in Lunawanna volunteer their time. This high level of community spirit is matched by a strong history of military service, with the area seeing much more involvement in the Defence Force than typical Australian towns.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 22.4% of residents helping out, which is well above the Tasmanian figure of 18.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While only 13.6% of people provide unpaid childcare—far below the national figure—unpaid work is still high. This is seen in the 16.8% who provide unpaid care and the 26.4% who do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both well above the national average.
16.8% —
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 14.1%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
13.6% —
Lower than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 13.0%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.4% —
Higher than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 26.4%
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.
Military service is notably high in Lunawanna, where 7.0% of people have served in the Defence Force, a figure well above both the state and national averages.
7.0%
Higher than 89% 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 Lunawanna [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60371/lunawanna/topic/community