12.6% ▼ -28.9%
Lower than 77% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.7%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 12.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Safety Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Safety Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Few things have changed in how people contribute to their community in Safety Beach over the last decade. While some areas have seen shifts in volunteering or care, this place remains fairly steady, with a particularly high number of former Defence Force members compared to similar areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most areas, with 12.6% of people helping out. This is about the same as the Victorian figure of 13.3%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is well below the national figure at 23.1%. However, 13.5% of people provide some form of unpaid care, which is a little above the Australian average.
13.5% ▲ +16.0%
Higher than 58% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 11.6%
- 2021: 13.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
23.1% ▼ -10.1%
Lower than 61% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 24.1%
- 2021: 23.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.3% ▼ -9.6%
Lower than 67% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.6%
- 2016: 21.5%
- 2021: 21.3%
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 residents have served in the Defence Force than in most similar areas. At 3.4%, this is a little above the 2.0% seen across Victoria.
3.4%
Higher 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 Safety Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22222/safety-beach/topic/community