13.4% ▼ -5.8%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.2%
- 2016: 15.5%
- 2021: 13.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Main Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Main Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people provide unpaid childcare in Main Beach than in other similar areas, with only 12.9% doing so. This reflects a broader trend in the area where unpaid care and housework are much less common than across Queensland and Australia.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is around the same as the national figure, with 13.4% of people in Main Beach giving their time to help others.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid work is uncommon here; only 16% of residents spend 15 or more hours a week on housework, which is well below the 20.7% typical for Australia. This is consistent with the low number of people providing general unpaid care.
10.0% ▲ +29.5%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
12.9% ▼ -0.4%
Lower than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.9%
- 2016: 15.3%
- 2021: 12.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
16.0% ▲ +29.1%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.4%
- 2016: 13.1%
- 2021: 16.0%
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 3.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force, a figure that sits around the middle for similar areas.
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 Main Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31735/main-beach/topic/community