14.8% ▼ -28.4%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.7%
- 2016: 19.6%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lightning Ridge · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Lightning Ridge
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly 15% of people in Lightning Ridge volunteer, reflecting a steady but declining level of community involvement. While volunteering remains slightly above the state average, other forms of unpaid work and care have fallen since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.8% of residents volunteer, which is lower than most areas but still a little above the New South Wales figure of 13.0%. This is a drop from 2011, when 20.7% of the community volunteered.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is much lower than in most areas, with only 18.4% of people caring for children and 14.9% doing 15 or more hours of housework. Meanwhile, 12.6% provide other unpaid care, a figure about the same as the national average.
12.6% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 9.8%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.4% ▼ -13.2%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 21.2%
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
14.9% ▼ -35.7%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.2%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 14.9%
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.
Only 1.7% of people have served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than most areas and a little below the Australian average of 2.8%.
1.7%
Lower than 89% 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 Lightning Ridge [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL115098/lightning-ridge/topic/community