23.8% —
Higher than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 49.4%
- 2021: 23.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Berat · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Berat
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Berat do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework each week. This is a community with high levels of engagement, where residents are far more likely to volunteer and help out than people in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 23.8% of people here volunteer, which is well above the Queensland and Australian figures of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While 35.2% of residents do a lot of housework—a rate far above the national figure—the proportion of people providing unpaid care or looking after children is much lower than in most areas.
6.7% —
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.0% —
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 21.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.2% —
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 34.8%
- 2021: 35.2%
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.
People who served in the Defence Force make up 2.9% of the population, which is about the same as the Australian figure of 2.8%.
2.9%
Higher than 53% 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 Berat [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30238/berat/topic/community