12.1% ▲ +1.9%
Lower than 79% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 12.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Beeliar · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Beeliar
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
More than a third of people in Beeliar provide unpaid childcare, which is a much higher rate than most other areas. While family care is common, this community is less likely to volunteer or provide other types of unpaid support compared to the rest of the state.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Only 12.1% of residents volunteer, a figure that is well below the Western Australian average of 15.9% and much lower than most similar areas.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Caring for children is very common here, with 35.3% of people doing so unpaid, which is well above the national figure of 26.3%. In contrast, those providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework are much less common than in most areas.
9.6% ▲ +18.6%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.1%
- 2016: 9.5%
- 2021: 9.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
35.3% ▼ -3.5%
Higher than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 36.6%
- 2016: 34.9%
- 2021: 35.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
19.4% ▼ -11.0%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.8%
- 2016: 20.2%
- 2021: 19.4%
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 2.6% of the population has served in the Defence Force, which is about the same as the figures for Western Australia and the rest of the country.
2.6%
Higher than 50% 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 Beeliar [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50098/beeliar/topic/community