18.4% ▼ -4.8%
Higher than 51% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.3%
- 2016: 21.6%
- 2021: 18.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Boat Harbour · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Boat Harbour
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than 30% of people in Boat Harbour provide significant unpaid help at home, marking it as a place where care and volunteering are common. This community shows a strong commitment to supporting others, both through domestic work and local service.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 18.4% of residents volunteer their time, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is very common here, with 30.7% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly, far above the 20.7% national average. This high level of domestic work is consistent with 31.0% of residents caring for children unpaid, a figure well above both the state and national rates.
14.7% ▲ +14.7%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.8%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 14.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.0% ▲ +2.8%
Higher than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.1%
- 2016: 35.2%
- 2021: 31.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
30.7% ▲ +15.0%
Higher than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.7%
- 2016: 26.9%
- 2021: 30.7%
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.
A higher proportion of the population has served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.8% of residents having served, which is a little above the Australian average of 2.8%.
4.8%
Higher than 78% 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 Boat Harbour [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL10424/boat-harbour/topic/community