15.6% ▼ -10.8%
Lower than 63% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.4%
- 2016: 22.7%
- 2021: 15.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Oak Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Oak Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Fewer people in Oak Beach participate in unpaid childcare and military service than in most similar areas. While 15.6% of residents volunteer, which is a little above the national figure, other forms of community contribution are quite low.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Around 15.6% of residents volunteer, a figure that is lower than most similar areas but still a little above the 14.1% seen across Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
A high 35.0% of people do 15 or more hours of unpaid housework, far above the national figure of 20.7%. However, the proportion of people caring for children unpaid is among the lowest at this level, at just 10.0%.
11.1% ▼ -9.0%
Lower than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.2%
- 2016: 8.7%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.0% ▼ -58.3%
Lower than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 24.0%
- 2016: 16.9%
- 2021: 10.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
35.0% ▲ +36.0%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 34.3%
- 2021: 35.0%
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.
No one in Oak Beach has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland figure of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% 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 Oak Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32205/oak-beach/topic/community