17.2% ▼ -20.1%
Lower than 54% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 21.5%
- 2016: 22.1%
- 2021: 17.2%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Sunset Beach · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Sunset Beach
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
Sunset Beach sits around the middle of similar areas for community involvement, though it has a notable volunteering rate. While 17.2% of residents volunteer, which is well above the national figure of 14.1%, other forms of community support are less common here.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 17.2% of people in Sunset Beach volunteer, a figure that is a little above the Western Australian average and well above the rest of the country.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Nearly 29.1% of residents provide unpaid child care, which is higher than most areas. In contrast, those providing other types of unpaid care are much lower than most areas at 9.7%, and 20.4% do 15 or more hours of housework weekly.
9.7% ▼ -9.5%
Lower than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 10.7%
- 2016: 11.5%
- 2021: 9.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
29.1% ▼ -9.5%
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 32.1%
- 2016: 30.3%
- 2021: 29.1%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
20.4% ▼ -22.4%
Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 26.3%
- 2016: 25.5%
- 2021: 20.4%
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.
Defence Force veterans make up 2.8% of the population, which is about the same as both the state and national figures.
2.8%
Higher than 53% 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 Sunset Beach [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51419/sunset-beach/topic/community