10.4% ▼ -8.0%
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.3%
- 2016: 12.3%
- 2021: 10.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beechboro · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Beechboro
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Far fewer people volunteer in Beechboro compared to the rest of the state, with only 10.4% of residents giving their time. This gap is a defining feature of the area's community participation, where engagement in unpaid work and volunteering is generally lower than national figures.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Just 10.4% of residents volunteer, which is much lower than most areas and well below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care is less common here, with 11.4% of people providing care, about the same as the national figure. This is mirrored in housework and childcare, where the 17.8% doing 15-plus hours of housework is much lower than most areas.
11.4% ▲ +23.3%
Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 9.3%
- 2016: 11.1%
- 2021: 11.4%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
24.7% ▼ -18.1%
Lower than 53% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.2%
- 2016: 27.1%
- 2021: 24.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
17.8% ▼ -8.7%
Lower than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 19.5%
- 2016: 20.3%
- 2021: 17.8%
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 2.3% of the population have served in the Defence Force, which is around the middle for its level and about the same as the Australian average of 2.8%.
2.3%
Lower than 56% 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 Beechboro [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50093/beechboro/topic/community