12.3% ▼ -14.4%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.4%
- 2016: 18.7%
- 2021: 12.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Saunders Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Saunders Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A strong connection to the military defines daily life in Saunders Beach, where 7.7% of residents have served in the Defence Force. This figure is well above the national average, though other forms of community help and unpaid care are less common here than in most other areas.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.3% of people volunteer their time, which is much lower than most other areas and a little below the national figure of 14.1%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less frequent here, with only 21.3% of people caring for children—well below the 26.3% national average. Those doing 15 or more hours of housework (20.1%) and those providing other unpaid care (11.4%) are both about the same as the state and national figures.
11.4% ▲ +65.8%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.9%
- 2016: 8.6%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
21.3% ▲ +5.5%
Lower than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.2%
- 2016: 21.2%
- 2021: 21.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.1% ▼ -8.5%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.9%
- 2016: 19.8%
- 2021: 20.1%
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.
Service in the Defence Force is very common in Saunders Beach, with 7.7% of people having served. This is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the national figure of 2.8%.
7.7%
Higher than 91% 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 Saunders Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32521/saunders-beach/topic/community