10.7% ▼ -23.4%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.9%
- 2016: 14.4%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Blacks Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Blacks Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Family responsibilities shape daily life in Blacks Beach, where 31.5% of people provide unpaid childcare. This is a strikingly high figure compared to the national average, though the area sees much lower levels of general volunteering and unpaid caregiving.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 10.7% of residents volunteer, which is well below the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
While many residents look after children, those providing other types of unpaid care are few at 8.3%, a figure well below the national average. Similarly, those doing 15 or more hours of housework each week are a little below the state figure.
8.3% ▲ +32.8%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 8.1%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
31.5% ▼ -12.1%
Higher than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 35.9%
- 2016: 35.1%
- 2021: 31.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
18.9% ▼ -10.3%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.0%
- 2016: 20.5%
- 2021: 18.9%
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.
About 2.1% of people in Blacks Beach have served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the national figure of 2.8%.
2.1%
Lower 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 Blacks Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30277/blacks-beach/topic/community