19.3% ▼ -5.9%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.5%
- 2016: 20.7%
- 2021: 19.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Preston Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Preston Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Higher rates of volunteering and military service set Preston Beach apart from most similar areas. Nearly one in five people volunteer here, and there is a notably strong presence of former or current Defence Force members.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
Volunteering is common in Preston Beach, with 19.3% of people helping out. This is well above the 15.9% seen across Western Australia and the 14.1% national figure.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid care for children is far below state and national levels at only 10.6%. However, 26% of people do 15 or more hours of housework weekly, which is well above the national figure of 20.7%.
9.8% ▼ -14.8%
Lower than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 13.3%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
10.6% ▼ -41.5%
Lower than 92% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 18.2%
- 2016: 19.7%
- 2021: 10.6%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
26.0% ▼ -20.9%
Higher than 60% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.8%
- 2016: 34.5%
- 2021: 26.0%
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.
Defence service is much more common here than in most similar areas. At 5.4%, the proportion of people who served in the Defence Force is a little above the state and national figures of around 2.8% to 2.9%.
5.4%
Higher than 84% 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 Preston Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51262/preston-beach/topic/community