13.8% ▼ -39.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 21.4%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beechwood · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Beechwood
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over a third of people in Beechwood provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above both the state and national averages. This high level of family care is a defining feature of the area's community life. Other forms of contribution, such as volunteering and defence service, are also present but less prominent.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 13.8% of residents volunteer their time, which is lower than most similar areas and about the same as the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 33.2% of people caring for children and 30.1% doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, both figures well above the national average. Around 13.4% of residents provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the Australian figure of 11.9%.
13.4% ▼ -0.6%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.4%
- 2016: 13.2%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.2% ▲ +13.9%
Higher than 85% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.1%
- 2016: 35.3%
- 2021: 33.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.1% ▲ +5.7%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 28.5%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 30.1%
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 local area has a higher proportion of people who served in the Defence Force than most other areas, with 3.5% of residents having served, which is a little above the New South Wales figure of 2.3%.
3.5%
Higher than 64% 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 Beechwood [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10248/beechwood/topic/community