13.9% ▲ +6.4%
Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 13.1%
- 2016: 17.6%
- 2021: 13.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Burns Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Burns Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
A high proportion of residents in Burns Beach provide unpaid childcare, with 36.1% of people performing this role. This figure is well above the national average and marks the most striking feature of community participation in the area. While family care is common, other forms of community support and service are less prevalent.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is less common here than in most other areas, with only 13.9% of residents taking part. This is a little below the Western Australian figure of 15.9%.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
The rate of people caring for children unpaid is much higher than most areas at 36.1%, which is well above the 26.3% national figure. In contrast, the 8.9% of people providing other unpaid care is well below the Australian average.
8.9% ▲ +31.1%
Lower than 81% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.8%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
36.1% ▼ -8.4%
Higher than 89% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.4%
- 2016: 38.1%
- 2021: 36.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.2% ▼ -10.4%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 22.5%
- 2016: 21.1%
- 2021: 20.2%
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 2.2% of the population has served in the Defence Force. This is around the middle for similar areas and is about the same as the figures for both the state and the nation.
2.2%
Lower than 57% 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 Burns Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50221/burns-beach/topic/community