15.0% ▼ -21.5%
Lower than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.2%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 15.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Forresters Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Forresters Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More people provide unpaid care and do housework in Forresters Beach than in most similar areas. This is a community where a significant number of residents support their families, with 28.4% caring for children without pay.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most similar areas, though at 15.0% it is a little above the New South Wales figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Residents are much more likely to do heavy housework and care for children than the national average, with 27.4% spending 15 or more hours a week on unpaid chores. Around 12.8% provide some form of unpaid care, which is about the same as the Australian figure.
12.8% ▲ +11.3%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.5%
- 2016: 12.6%
- 2021: 12.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.4% ▼ -14.1%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.0%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 28.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.4% ▲ +5.9%
Higher than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.9%
- 2016: 26.1%
- 2021: 27.4%
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 3.1% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a rate that is about the same as both the state and national figures.
3.1%
Higher 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 Forresters Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11552/forresters-beach/topic/community