15.5% —
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 19.3%
- 2021: 15.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Greenhills Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Greenhills Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of residents provide unpaid childcare, making Greenhills Beach a place where family care is far more common than in other areas. While volunteer rates are lower than in many similar places, the community remains more active in unpaid domestic work and childcare than the state and national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 15.5% of people volunteer here, which is a little above the national figure of 14.1% and the New South Wales figure of 13.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is a major part of life here, with 36.7% of people caring for children—a figure far above the national average. This is consistent with a higher rate of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, while those providing other types of unpaid care are a little below the state and national figures.
10.0% —
Lower than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.7% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.4%
- 2021: 36.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
27.6% —
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 21.8%
- 2021: 27.6%
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 small number of residents have served in the Defence Force at 1.6%, which is lower than most areas and a little below the Australian figure of 2.8%.
1.6%
Lower than 62% 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 Greenhills Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL11770/greenhills-beach/topic/community