14.5% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.0%
- 2016: 18.4%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Trinity Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Trinity Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Community involvement in Trinity Beach has remained steady over recent years. The area is most notable for its high proportion of former Defence Force members, with 4.5% of residents having served.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 14.5% of people here volunteer, which is lower than most similar areas but about the same as the Queensland and national figures.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Care and housework patterns are typical for the region, with 26.3% of people caring for children unpaid. However, those providing general unpaid care (10.4%) and those doing 15 or more hours of housework (20.6%) are both lower than in most areas.
10.4% ▲ +12.5%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.3% ▼ -1.3%
Higher than 55% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.6%
- 2016: 29.4%
- 2021: 26.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.6% ▼ -4.0%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 20.6%
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.
A much higher proportion of residents have served in the Defence Force compared to most areas, with 4.5% of the population having served. This is a little above the Australian figure of 2.8%.
4.5%
Higher than 76% 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 Trinity Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32872/trinity-beach/topic/community