14.9% ▼ -26.0%
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 20.1%
- 2016: 20.4%
- 2021: 14.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lakes Entrance · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Lakes Entrance
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Almost a quarter of people in Lakes Entrance do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This high level of home contribution is a key feature of the area's community life, although the number of people volunteering for organisations has dropped since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.9% of residents volunteer, which is lower than most areas. This figure is slightly above the Victorian average of 13.3% but has fallen by 5.2 percentage points over the last decade.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is much lower here than in most areas, sitting well below the national figure of 26.3%. However, 14.1% of people provide some form of unpaid care, a rate that is higher than most areas and has risen since 2011.
14.1% ▲ +13.6%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 14.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
18.1% ▼ -21.5%
Lower than 81% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 21.9%
- 2021: 18.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.0% ▼ -6.0%
Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.5%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 24.0%
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.
Defence service is more common here than in most similar areas. At 4.4%, the proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is a little above both the Victorian and national figures.
4.4%
Higher than 69% 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 Lakes Entrance [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL214014/lakes-entrance/topic/community