18.6% ▼ -37.6%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 17.3%
- 2021: 18.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lansdowne · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Lansdowne
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Well above the national figure of 14.1%, 18.6% of people in Lansdowne volunteer. This high level of community spirit stands out against a local trend of much lower rates of unpaid childcare and housework compared to the rest of the Territory.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.6% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 14.1% seen across both the Northern Territory and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below the Northern Territory figure, with only 19.5% of people providing this support. Similarly, the 15% of people doing over 15 hours of housework is well below the national figure of 20.7%.
11.0% ▲ +15.5%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 11.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
19.5% ▼ -24.9%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.0%
- 2016: 19.1%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
15.0% ▼ -21.9%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 12.1%
- 2021: 15.0%
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.
A higher than usual 4.1% of residents have served in the Defence Force, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.1%
Higher than 72% 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 Lansdowne [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70156/lansdowne/topic/community