21.5% ▼ -26.5%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.3%
- 2016: 28.4%
- 2021: 21.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beech Forest · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Beech Forest
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Much higher rates of community involvement than most similar areas define Beech Forest. This is seen in a strong volunteering culture and a high number of people providing unpaid care for others in the community.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is very common here, with 21.5% of people helping out. This is well above the Victorian figure of 13.3% and the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is prevalent, with 16.8% of residents providing care—well above the 11.9% national average. This is alongside 25.2% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework, which is also well above the national figure.
16.8% ▲ +47.3%
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.4%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.3% ▲ +0.8%
Lower than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.1%
- 2016: 24.3%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
25.2% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 27.0%
- 2021: 25.2%
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.
Defence service is rare in this area, with 0.0% of people having served. This is a little below the 2.8% recorded for Australia.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Beech Forest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL20185/beech-forest/topic/community