21.7% ▼ -0.3%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.7%
- 2016: 24.5%
- 2021: 21.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Surf Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Surf Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Volunteer rates have climbed steadily in Surf Beach, with 21.7% of residents now giving their time to others. This is well above the figures for Victoria and the rest of Australia. It marks the area as a place with a particularly strong culture of community help.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 21.7% of people here volunteer, which is higher than most similar areas and well above the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
About 13% of residents provide unpaid care and 26% care for children unpaid, both of which are about the same as the state and national figures. However, the 20.4% of people doing 15 or more hours of housework weekly is lower than most areas.
13.0% ▲ +9.0%
Higher than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 13.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▼ -23.2%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 33.8%
- 2016: 29.6%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.4% ▼ -24.2%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.9%
- 2016: 22.8%
- 2021: 20.4%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 3.4% of the population, which is higher than most similar areas and a little above the 2% seen across Victoria.
3.4%
Higher than 63% 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 Surf Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL22398/surf-beach/topic/community