11.6% ▼ -24.8%
Lower than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.4%
- 2016: 17.2%
- 2021: 11.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beaconsfield · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Beaconsfield
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 28.3% of people in Beaconsfield provide unpaid childcare, which is a higher rate than in most other similar areas. This is the most common form of community contribution here, though overall volunteering is notably low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 11.6% of the community volunteers, a figure that is much lower than most similar areas and a little below the national average of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While more people here look after children unpaid than in most areas, those doing 15 or more hours of housework or providing general unpaid care are less common than in similar places.
11.4% ▲ +17.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 10.4%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
28.3% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 31.1%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 28.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -10.6%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.0%
- 2016: 23.2%
- 2021: 20.6%
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.
People who have served in the Defence Force make up 3.2% of the population, which is about the same as the figures for Queensland and Australia.
3.2%
Higher than 58% 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 Beaconsfield [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30191/beaconsfield/topic/community