13.6% —
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 17.4%
- 2021: 13.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Bennett · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Bennett
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Only 13.6% of people volunteer in Lake Bennett, reflecting a community where formal and informal support roles are less common than in other regions. The area stands out for having far fewer people providing unpaid care compared to the rest of the Territory and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering rates are about the same as the national figure of 14.1%, though this is lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care roles are very uncommon here; 10.2% of people provide unpaid childcare, which is far below the Northern Territory's 30.2%. No one in the area reports providing other types of unpaid care, and housework for 15 or more hours a week is much lower than in most areas.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.2% —
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 15.1%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.1% —
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 16.1%
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.
A higher than usual proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force, with 3.4% of the population having that experience.
3.4%
Higher than 62% 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 Lake Bennett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70153/lake-bennett/topic/community