19.2% ▼ -36.0%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.0%
- 2016: 45.6%
- 2021: 19.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Lake Boga · Urban Centre
Community Participation in Lake Boga
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Nearly one in five people in Lake Boga give their time to volunteering, making it a place where community help is far more common than the national figure. While this spirit of service remains strong, the number of local volunteers has dropped by 11 percentage points since 2011.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 19.2% of residents volunteer, which is well above the 13.3% seen across Victoria and the 14.1% national average.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Around 24.5% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework weekly, a figure well above the national average of 20.7%. Meanwhile, 23.9% care for children unpaid, though this is a little below the state and national figures.
12.7% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 12.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.9% ▼ -22.3%
Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 30.8%
- 2016: 18.6%
- 2021: 23.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
24.5% ▼ -13.1%
Higher than 55% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 28.2%
- 2016: 23.8%
- 2021: 24.5%
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 2.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is much lower than most similar areas.
2.5%
Lower than 77% 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 Lake Boga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL221039/lake-boga/topic/community