13.3% ▼ -20.0%
Lower than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 16.6%
- 2016: 20.1%
- 2021: 13.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lemon Tree Passage · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Lemon Tree Passage
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong military connection defines community life in Lemon Tree Passage, where the proportion of Defence Force veterans is among the highest for similar areas. While 6.6% of residents have served, other forms of community contribution like volunteering have declined over the last decade.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.3% of people here volunteer, which is much lower than most similar areas. This figure is about the same as the New South Wales and national rates, but it has fallen by 3.3 percentage points since 2011.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
People providing unpaid care make up 13.5% of the population, a little above the national figure. However, those caring for children unpaid are well below the state and national levels at 21.6%, and this has fallen by 6.2 percentage points since 2011.
13.5% ▼ -5.5%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.6% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 27.8%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 21.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.4% ▼ -21.5%
Higher than 54% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 23.5%
- 2021: 24.4%
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.
The area has a very high number of people who served in the Defence Force at 6.6%. This is well above the 2.3% seen across New South Wales and the 2.8% national average.
6.6%
Higher than 90% of urban centre 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 Lemon Tree Passage [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115097/lemon-tree-passage/topic/community