2.9% ▼ -72.4%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.4%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 2.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lajamanu · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lajamanu
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Daily life in Lajamanu is shaped by a huge amount of child care, with 67.5% of people caring for children unpaid. This is far above the national figure, though other types of community work and volunteering are much less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 2.9% of people volunteer, which is among the lowest for similar areas and far below the 14.1% seen across the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While child care is very common, just 3.1% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, a figure far below the national average of 20.7%. Unpaid care for others is also much lower than most areas at 8.9%.
8.9% ▼ -59.6%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
67.5% ▲ +11.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 60.4%
- 2016: 42.6%
- 2021: 67.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
3.1% ▼ -86.6%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.3%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 3.1%
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 the community has served in the Defence Force, which is lower than most areas and well below the 5.2% for the Northern Territory.
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 Lajamanu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70152/lajamanu/topic/community