21.5% ▼ -20.1%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 29.2%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beecroft · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Beecroft
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Over 30% of people in Beecroft provide unpaid childcare, making it a place with very high levels of community and family support. This spirit extends to the broader public, with volunteering rates far exceeding both state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 21.5% of residents giving their time. This is well above the national figure of 14.1% and higher than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caregiving is a major part of local life, as 30.3% of people provide unpaid childcare and 27.0% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly—both figures are well above the national average. A little above the national figure, 13.0% of residents provide other types of unpaid care.
13.0% ▲ +3.8%
Higher than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.6%
- 2016: 13.5%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
30.3% ▼ -3.4%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.3%
- 2016: 33.0%
- 2021: 30.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.0% ▲ +2.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.4%
- 2016: 24.8%
- 2021: 27.0%
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.
About 2.2% of people in Beecroft have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for New South Wales and Australia.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Beecroft [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10249/beecroft/topic/community