17.7% ▼ -11.6%
Lower than 52% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 21.0%
- 2021: 17.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sunrise Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sunrise Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A well above average 17.7% of people in Sunrise Beach volunteer their time, which is significantly higher than the Queensland and national figures. This suggests a strong level of community involvement across the area. Most other forms of community service and unpaid care follow patterns seen across the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common here, with 17.7% of residents giving their time. This is 3.6 percentage points higher than the figure for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is found in 26.5% of homes, which is about the same as the state and national averages. However, the 10.6% of people providing other unpaid care is a little below the national figure.
10.6% ▲ +9.3%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 10.0%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.5% ▼ -11.2%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 29.8%
- 2016: 30.0%
- 2021: 26.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
21.8% ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.7%
- 2016: 22.5%
- 2021: 21.8%
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 2.8% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is about the same as the Australian average, though a little below the figure for Queensland.
2.8%
Higher than 52% 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 Sunrise Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32697/sunrise-beach/topic/community