12.5% ▼ -17.8%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 15.2%
- 2016: 14.7%
- 2021: 12.5%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Christies Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Christies Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
About 26% of people in Christies Beach provide unpaid childcare, making it the most common form of community contribution here. While childcare is common, other forms of volunteering are much less frequent than in most other areas. This reflects a community focused more on family care than formal volunteer groups.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.5% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the South Australian figure of 17.0%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is around the national middle at 26%. However, 14.2% of people provide other types of unpaid care, which is higher than most areas and a little above the national figure of 11.9%.
14.2% ▲ +20.4%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 11.8%
- 2021: 14.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
26.0% ▼ -1.6%
Higher than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.5%
- 2016: 24.9%
- 2021: 26.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.7% ▼ -13.4%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.9%
- 2016: 20.8%
- 2021: 20.7%
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 higher than usual 3.5% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the South Australian figure of 3.2%.
3.5%
Higher than 63% 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 Christies Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL40257/christies-beach/topic/community