45.8% —
Higher than 98% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Mackay · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lake Mackay
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 46% of people in Lake Mackay volunteer, a figure far above the national average. This high level of community involvement stands out as the most striking feature of the area's social participation.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
With 45.8% of residents volunteering, Lake Mackay is among the highest for this activity. This is far above the 14.1% recorded for both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is much less common here than elsewhere. Only 12.5% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, and no one in the area provides unpaid care for people with disabilities or illness.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
25.0% ▼ -65.0%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 71.4%
- 2021: 25.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
12.5% —
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
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 Lake Mackay has served in the Defence Force. This is well below the Northern Territory figure of 5.2% and a little below the national rate of 2.8%.
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 Lake Mackay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70154/lake-mackay/topic/community